[R-C] Congestion control requirements - I-D format, -01a version

[Ali C. Begen (abegen)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:harald at alvestrand.no]
> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 8:03 AM
> To: Ali C. Begen (abegen)
> Cc: rtp-congestion at alvestrand.no; Randell Jesup
> Subject: Re: [R-C] Congestion control requirements - I-D format, -01a version
> 
> On 03/03/2012 01:33 PM, Ali C. Begen (abegen) wrote:
> > Looks like you are specifically talking about the reqs for interactive media. Then, I think the title should reflect that (as
> opposed to any real time media which would include one-way streaming).
> Actually I was using the definition of "real-time" from
> draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview:
> 
>     Interactive:  Communication between multiple parties, where the
>        expectation is that an action from one party can cause a reaction
>        by another party, and the reaction can be observed by the first
>        party, with the total time required for the action/reaction/
>        observation is on the order of no more than hundreds of
>        milliseconds.
> 
>     Media:  Audio and video content.  Not to be confused with
>        "transmission media" such as wires.
> 
>     Real-time media:  Media where generation of content and display of
>        content are intended to occur closely together in time (on the
>        order of no more than hundreds of milliseconds).

One hundred vs hundreds of ms makes a big difference IMO. I won't insist but these two types of apps have quite different requirements when it comes to congestion control.
 
> If you insist, I can add "interactive" to the title, but I don't think
> of one-way streaming of stored video as "real-time", and wouldn't want
> to encourage that idea.

Stored or live, that is a separate discussion but in the case of streaming of one-way content, the crucial thing is the tolerable delay not whether the content is pre-encoded or live.

-acbegen
 
> > -acbegen
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: rtp-congestion-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:rtp-congestion-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Harald
> >> Alvestrand
> >> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 7:14 AM
> >> To: rtp-congestion at alvestrand.no; Randell Jesup
> >> Subject: [R-C] Congestion control requirements - I-D format, -01a version
> >>
> >> These requirements are Randell's text, mostly, cropped into an I-D
> >> format and annotated a bit by me.
> >> I'll upload this to the I-D server tomorrow. Randell, is it OK to submit
> >> it with your name in the I-D name?
> >>
> >> Comments are welcome for 24 hours starting .... now ....
> >>
> >>                        Harald
> >