Subject: [avtext] Taxonomy

From: "Mo Zanaty (mzanaty)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 05:02:56 +0000

Hi,
In today’s AVTEXT session, the following issues related to the taxonomy draft were discussed.

1. MST/SST: I suggest new terminology focused on Single/Multiple Transport (rather than RTP Session) combined with Single/Multiple RTP Stream.
MRMT (Multiple RTP Streams over Multiple Transports)
MRST (Multiple RTP Streams over Single Transport)
SRST (Single RTP Stream over Single Transport)

2. There is no term for referring to a media source or sink. Endpoint comes to mind, but that is fundamentally different in -taxonomy. Terminal is another possibility, but is generally not used in RTP (outside H.323). Another possibility is simply ‘media source/sink’, if the usage is not expected to be very high. This issue came up in drafting text for the BUNDLE RTP mid, which applies to all RTP streams between a pair of media sources/sinks.

3. There is no term for referring to the set of RTP streams between a media source and sink. Transport comes to mind, but that is fundamentally different in -taxonomy. Channel is another possibility, but is generally not used in RTP. Another possibility is simply ‘RTP streams between media source/sink X/Y’, if the usage is not expected to be very high. This issue came up in drafting text for the BUNDLE RTP mid, which applies to all RTP streams between a pair of media sources/sinks.

Mo