On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet <[email protected]> wrote:
> [sending on behalf of the XSF's Editor Team] > > At its meeting on October 21, 2015, the XMPP Council agreed to issue a > "Call for Experience" regarding XEP-0301 (In-Band Real Time Text), in > preparation for perhaps advancing this specification from Draft to Final in > the XSF's standards process. To help the Council decide whether this XEP is > ready to advance to a status of Final, the Council would like to gather the > following information: > Fellow members here will observe this is fairly quick for a CfE. Some background info: We decided to request CfE rather early, to get comments necessary to improve the standard as much as possible (if any changes needed). No protocol change is anticipated; just simple errata, editorial and implementation detail clarifications. 1 -- developer experience indicates XEP-0301 is well-engineered (despite over-engineering); 2 -- our annual review of standard repeatedly show virtually no need for changes; 3 -- there is a regulatory incentive 4 -- this october 2015, there is a sudden increase in RTT interest Access-Board.gov http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-ict-refresh/proposed-rule/v-major-issues "Yet despite its potential benefits, the Board cannot incorporate XEP-0301 until it becomes a final standard. However, should the XEP-0301 standard be finalized before publication of the final rule, the Board plans to incorporate it by reference as an alternative technology to support transmission of RTT when interoperating with VoIP products or systems using XMPP. RFC 4103 would, in any event, be retained for ICT interoperating with VoIP products or systems using SIP technology." FCC Grants AT&T waiver to introduce real-time text to replace TTY: http://www.commlawmonitor.com/2015/10/articles/disabilities-access/fcc-grants-att-waiver-request-to-use-real-time-text-for-hearing-impaired-communications/ This will be RFC4103, but will need to interop with XEP-0301. AT&T plan is for 2017: https://www.fcc.gov/document/tty-rtt-transition-waiver-att AT&T mentions XEP-0301 in their RTT presentation: http://g3ict.org/design/js/tinymce/filemanager/userfiles/File/2015%20Summit/Aaron%20Bangor_Standards.pdf I should note I am not employed by AT&T and have no financial benefit from this.However, I want to be sure that XEP-0301 is absolutely as mature as possible in these short timescales we're asking, preferably far before 2017, given implementation timescales and the sudden increase in RTT interest in the telecom world. Also, proprietary implementations of XEP-0301-like real-time text already exist. http://www.beammessenger.com/ as an example. Having a clear standard that is promoted to FINAL sooner than one may expect is normal for certain XSF standard, would encourage more implementers to choose XMPP for messaging and, consequently, XEP-0301. Fortunately, developer experience on 0301 has been overall generally more-positive-than-expected (considering size of standard); and we look forward to hearing more CfE feeback. Thanks, Mark Rejhon
