Document: draft-ietf-simple-presence-data-model-06 Reviewer: Elwyn Davies [elwynd@dial.pipex.com] Review Date: Tuesday 12/13/2005 4:22 PM CST Telechat Date: Thursday 12/15/2005 Summary: Ready with nits. Review: ------- This is an update of my last call review detailing the editorial nits which I found during the review plus a discussion of the intended status of this document and the documents which it updates as identified by Brian Carpenter. Summary: Internally the document is ready to progress give or take a few editorial nits. However it needs to be clarified how it relates to the two documents which it asserts that it updates given that the intended status of this document is PS and one of the two updated documents is an Informational. The introduction implies that this document updates RFC2778 and RFC3863; this needs to be stated both in the abstract and the document header. This gives rise to some concerns over the status of the document and the references to the two documents which it updates. There is no problem with RFC3863 which is a PS but RFC2778 is Informational and is currently classified as an Informative reference. So two questions: - Is this a legitimate way to update RFC2778, and - If so, should RFC2778 be a 'downref' Normative reference? Editorial: s2, para 1: s/new terms/ additional terms over and above those defined in [RFC2778]/ s2, definition of Occurrence: s/document/Presence Information Format (PIDF) document/ s2, definition of Status: On first reading I found the original definition confusingly vague and apparently meaningless. After reading the rest of the document it became clearer what was intended. Maybe my alternative would be clearer on first reading but it is now difficult to tell. s/Generally dynamic information about a service, person or device./Information about the disposition of a service, person or device which is generally expected to change with time (contrast with Characteristic)./ s2, definition of Characteristic: s/Generally static information about a service, person or device./Information about the disposition of a service, person or device which is generally static over time (contrast with Status)./ s3: 'They are the presentity URI...' The labelling of the diagram seems to better convey that the URI is (as I understand) it a label or identifier for the presentity rather than the presentity URI itself being a componen t of the model. Maybe this should be 'They are the presentity, identified by a URI,....' s3: s/description about the service/description of some aspect of the service/ s3: s/affilitated/affiliated/ s3.1, para 1: 'pres URI' looks like a mistake: s/pres URI/URI from the Presence (pres) scheme/ s3.1, para 3: s/Independent of its scheme/Irrespective of the scheme feom which the URI is taken/ s3.3, para4: s/There is no central registry by which one goes finds the identifiers for each service. Consequently, each service does not have a single "service" attribute that with values of "ptt" or "telephony". That does not mean that these consolidated monikers are n't useful;/There is no central registry to which one goes finds the identifiers for every service. Consequently, each service does not have a single "service" attribute with values such as "ptt" or "telephony". That does not mean that these consolidated monikers are not useful;/ s3.3, para 4: s/is less meaningful to create a summarization/is less meaningful as a way of creating a summarization/ s3.3.1, para 1: s/auomata/automaton/ s3.3.1, para 1: s/RFC2533, for example[11]/RFC2533[11], for example,/ s3.3.1, para 1: s/(this service only does voice)/(e,g., this service only does voice)/ s3.3.2, para 1: s/are the instructions/provides the instructions/ s3.3.2, para 6: s/Because the reach information serves as an idenfifier for a service, it also serves as a way to figure out whether something is one service or two./Because the reach information serves as an identifier for a service, it also serves as a way to figure out whether a communications capability should be represented as one service or more./ s3.3.2, para 6: s/can do audio/is capable of audio/ s3.3.2, para 8: s/are most ideally/is most ideally/ s3.3.2, para 8: s/amount of presence/number of presence/ s3.3.2, para 8: s/bceome incresingly smal/decrease correspondingly/ s3.3.2, para 9: 3 instances of enum s/b ENUM maybe? s3.3.2, para 9: I think some explanation of the dip indicator might help. This is very obscure to the casual reader. s3.3.2, para 9: s/it means/it generally means/ perhaps? s3.3.2, para 10: s/reachable by potentially/reachable through, potentially,/ s3.3.2, para 10: s/infomation/information sets/ s3.3.2, para 11: s/service URI/service URIs/ s3.3.4, para 1: s/either closed or open/either "closed" or "open"/ s3.3.4, para 1, last sentence: s/the communications/that communications/ s3.3.4, para 2: s/eventually get/eventually gets/ s3.3.4., para 4: s/s roaming/is roaming/ s3.4, para 3: s/compostitor/compositor/ s3.4, para 5: s/RECOMMEND/RECOMMENDED/ s3.4, para 12 (I think): s/apriori/a priori/ s3.5, para 2 and para 5: s/automata/automaton/ s7: The introduction claims 'examples' but there is only one. s7, next to last para: s/voip/VoIP/