Evaluation: draft-rajeshkumar-mmusic-gpmd-03.txt to Proposed Standard

[IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>]

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Evaluation for draft-rajeshkumar-mmusic-gpmd-03.txt can be found at 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/cgi-bin/idtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=9338&rfc_flag=0 

Last Call to expire on: 2003-07-03

        Please return the full line with your position.

                      Yes  No-Objection  Discuss  Abstain
Harald Alvestrand    [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Steve Bellovin       [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Randy Bush           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Bill Fenner          [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Ned Freed            [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Ted Hardie           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Russ Housley         [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Allison Mankin       [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Thomas Narten        [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Jon Peterson         [ X ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Margaret Wasserman   [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Bert Wijnen          [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Alex Zinin           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]

2/3 (9) Yes or No-Objection opinions needed to pass.

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Subject: Protocol Action: SDP attribute for qualifying Media Formats with Generic Parameters to Proposed Standard
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'SDP attribute for qualifying Media Formats with Generic Parameters' <draft-rajeshkumar-mmusic-gpmd-03.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This has been reviewed by the MMUSIC Working Group of the IETF. 
The IESG contact person is Jon Peterson.

This document defines a new SDP attribute called general-purpose media descriptor (gpmd). The gpmd attribute allows the use of new informative parameters, gpmd parameters, to qualify existing media formats. These gpmd parameters are not part of the standard (e.g., MIME) definition of the media format and support for them with a given media format can not be assumed.  Their use is therefore limited to cases where they provide information that may be of use to the other party in a session but is not critical to the use of the particular media format. 

This document also defines a specific gpmd parameter, voice-band data, which can be used to describe a media format as carrying voice-band data. This enables the receiver to optimize its handling of the media received. 

The MMUSIC Working Group supported the publication of this document.

This document was reviewed for the IESG by Jon Peterson.