Subject: RE: [Speermint] GAP analysis for transcoding function in SPEERMINT

From: "Livingood, Jason" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:50:19 -0400

I suggest some more detailed / specific use cases to describe this in
detail so we can better understand it.

Jason 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Schwartz [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:23 PM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: [Speermint] GAP analysis for transcoding function in 
> SPEERMINT
> 
> I was requested to throw this to the list for some discussion.
> 
> The issue of transcoding came up today at the interim meeting 
> and while the general consensus was that SPEERMINT should not 
> have any requirements for endpoints at least one use case was 
> discussed that challenged the consensus.
> 
> The use case involves two endpoints that share a codec set 
> but due to the traversal of one or more federations employing 
> transcoding of media due to a disjoint set of codec's between 
> the actual federations the resultant media is transcoded 
> perhaps more than once.
> 
> Is this an issue? If so does the solution space belong in SPEERMINT?
> SIPPING? Etc. If this belongs in SPEERMINT does this end up 
> putting requirements on endpoints? 
> 
> Please send comments to the list so that a proper GAP 
> analysis can be done.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
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