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Re: Changes in response to IESG review of RTP
> For a long time I had a vexing Action Item about sending in the RFC
> Editor notes for the tentative passage of RTP and the RTP Profile to
> Draft Standard. You guys probably don't remember it, but it was there
> for a while, because the notes were a bit intricate, though nothing
> was substantive. The most technical change was the SEC AD request to
> point out that the documented encryption approach in RTP should point
> out that an AES-based appraoch was on the way, which these changes
> have done.
>
> The real reason for delay was a month or so in when we discovered that
> one of the profiles had been implemented in reverse-endian by Cisco,
> due to adhering to an AAL2 pattern. There ensued a lengthy polling of
> the broad community, including ITU SGs, and assuaging Cisco, before we
> determined that this error was not one that should affect the IETF
> Draft Standard. But the WG and Chairs had asked me to hold the
> documents while this poll was conducted. The upshot was no change to
> the profile.
>
> Then they asked to re-do the drafts, as you see now.
>
> Now I would like your trust that the new i-ds are fine and I would
> like to ask the Secretariat to announce them as approved Draft
> Standards, because they really do reflect our review and approval,
> based on my tracking them all the way through.
>
> Any issues?
i'll trust you
randy