Subject: RE: [AVT] Re: Request to review media type in AVT working grouplastcall: draft-ietf-avt-rtp-3gpp-timed-text.txt

From: "Jose Rey" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 20:05:47 +0200

[sorry for delay.. I am travelling]

Ned, Tom,

> 
> > Hi Tom,
> 
> > Tom Taylor wrote:
> > > Simple question: do you expect a given session to consist of just 
> > > one character encoding (UTF-8 or UTF-16) or do you want the 
> > > possibility for it to contain a mixture?  If the encoding is a 
> > > per-session attribute it makes more sense for it to be negotiated 
> > > out-of-band, as a parameter of the MIME type (and hence 
> as an SDP "a=fmtp" parameter).
> > >
> 
> > To my understanding a session may contain a mixture of 
> UTF-8 and UTF-16.

This is correct.  

> 
> That implies that the bit isn't aligned with where media 
> types appear. And that in turn makes it inappropriate to map 
> to a media type parameter, irrespective of whether or not it 
> is used for negotiation.
> 

Yes.

Since all is fine now, I will make the changes and send a new draft in the next days.

José

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