Hello Matthew, Thanks for your comments! I eager await your ongoing comments. Just some brief reply:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Matthew Miller <linuxw...@outer-planes.net> wrote: > * Reword the paragraph 3 in terms of the problems it is solving. One possible > suggestion: I like the inclusion of the following: It can also allow immediate conversation in situations where speech cannot be used (e.g. quiet environments, privacy, deaf and hard of hearing). One potentially popular application that some end-users told me (plus potential users, like a friend of mine, who works in the military, where some secure text-messaging systems are used) is the ability to communicate quietly, privately, and covertly, using text -- and real-time text would also speed up communications without the sound of speaking, and without waiting for complete sentences of messages. So any rewordings of the paragraph, should be able to adequately cover the above useful scenario of being able to communicate voice-style using text, without making noises. > While XMPP CORE [RFC6120] and XMPP IM [RFC6121] provides for near real-time > text conversation, this is often as sentences or sentence fragments that > convey complete thought on the part of the sender, in a linear progression, > as the user directs. One observation -- by the deaf audience's eyes, instant message threads are not considered live (real-time) conversations because it implies forced waiting by recipients for sender messages. This can be important during a deaf person's potential "fastest possible method of communicating". So, I would prefer not to use the phrase "near real-time text" verbatim, because it's only as real-time as the sender wants it to be -- e.g. how frequently the sender hits Enter. It could even be once every minute, which can lead to annoying waits, and is not near-real time. I will try to find another synonym phrase. Also, in some accessible communities, the word "conversation" has a different definition. But you have a good point, my old text might not be good either to certain audiences. The challenge is, what text to replace with? So, the challenge is, the paragraph needs to be written both geek-friendly (people like you and me) and deaf-friendly (one part of the audience). The wording that you chose, will need to be tweaked. Although real-time text can be viewed (by some) as an accessible technology, it does have military and emergency applications, as well as teen texting applications, etc. It's a challenge, fine balancing act, since I'm catering to so many potential audiences with this spec. Mark Rejhon
