Hi,

>> Minor Issues: I previously gave the following comment:
>>  
>> “Regarding SDP, I think it would be good to have the ABNF syntax for 
>> the a=fmtp parameter (currently you only have descriptive text of the 
>> different parameters). It makes the life for the parser implementers 
>> much easier :)”
>>  
>> I guess one, by reading section 7 and the examples, can figure out how 
>> to encode the a=fmtp parameter, but I think it would to explicitly 
>> define the syntax.
>
> (For the record, I just recently took over responsibility for PAYLOAD, so if 
> I'm misinterpreting things, someone please tell me :-)  )
>
> While I can see that as a "might be nice" addition, I don't think it's 
> something that we have required of other payload drafts. 

After all my years of taking drafts through the IETF publication process, I 
have learned that there is no such thing as consistency :)

> draft-ietf-payload-rtp (in RFC ed queue) says the following about ABNF for 
> SDP parameters:
>
> "Not that commonly used in RTP payload formats but may be useful when 
> defining Media Type parameters of some complexity."
>
> If I'm reading correctly, the FMTP parameters in this draft fit the pretty 
> common "semicolon delimited list of parameter=value pairs", so I don't think 
> this rises to the level of "some complexity".
>
> So unless you think the parameters in this draft are more complex than 
> average, I don't think we need to add them at this late stage. It might be 
> worth discussing whether we should ask authors of future payload drafts to 
> include ABNF for this sort of thing.

I can live without any changes.

Regards,

Christer



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