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Re: Last Call: <draft-thornburgh-adobe-rtmfp-07.txt> (Adobe's Secure Real-Time Media Flow Protocol) to Informational RFC

2013-06-12 06:41:45
Hi SM,

On 06/05/2013 06:12 PM, SM wrote:
At 09:12 28-05-2013, The IESG wrote:
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
the following document:
- 'Adobe's Secure Real-Time Media Flow Protocol'
  <draft-thornburgh-adobe-rtmfp-07.txt> as Informational RFC

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org mailing lists by 2013-06-25. Exceptionally, comments 
may be

The write-up mentions that:

   "As a private protocol, no technical changes were performed on the
    protocol itself, but the authors disclosed more details in
    response to the WG discussions."

I don't see why this specification requires IETF consensus as it is not
possible to suggest any major changes.  The explanation given for the
intended status is that the aspects of the protocol protected by IPR
were not reviewed externally.

The summary is that there is a memo which is not a WG memo, which is
supposed to have gained WG consensus, where some group is supposed to
consider the IPR disclosure, and which is being Last-Called as an
Individual Submission.  I would like to be considered as not part of the
consensus.


The last call is not intended to gather IETF consensus about this draft but give the community an opportunity to see the draft and comment on it before it progress to the IESG. This draft is an AD sponsored draft.

As Michael also pointed out in his email: The draft has been brought to the attention of parts of the Transport Area.

The intention is to document the RTMFP protocol for the general public.


Nits:

   "At the time of writing, the Adobe Flash Player runtime is
    installed on more than one billion end-user desktop computers."

Shouldn't the memo be about the protocol?

The memo is about the protocol, but it is worth mentioning the deployment base.

Regards,

  Martin



Regards,
-sm

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