I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART)
reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see
http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html).
Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments
you may receive.
Document: draft-ietf-xcon-framework-09.txt
Reviewer: Scott Brim
Review Date: 15 Oct 2007
IETF LC End Date: 22 Oct 2007
IESG Telechat date: (if known)
Summary: This draft is ready for publication as a Proposed Standard
RFC. I have a couple of comments which should not block it.
Comments:
- idnits says:
== Outdated reference: draft-ietf-simple-message-sessions has
been published as RFC 4975
== Outdated reference: draft-ietf-xcon-bfcp-connection has been
published as RFC 5018
- As a naive reader, I wonder why this is standards track as opposed
to informational. I get the sense that there are external
reasons. It is very general. If I were building a conferencing
system, I would first start with requirements, then design a
system to meet those requirements, and then perhaps go back to
this document to see if I had forgotten anything. It might help
me to look through this document during the design phase, just to
narrow my thinking, but I probably wouldn't want my thinking
narrowed. It might help with interoperability, but since it is so
general it does not really constrain implementors of individual
components well enough to ensure interoperability. It feels more
like a thought document, something the WG would use internally
while it defined actual specs. So I wonder why it is not just
informational, but I believe there are reasons.
- Some of the language could be edited for clarity, but that is not
enough to stop the document since it's not in a protocol
specification. For example, "The conference object identifier is
created both by the conferencing system based on internal actions
as well as based on specific conference protocol requests.".
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