Olivier,

Thanks for your careful review. I have copied the respective editors so that they can address these points in their documents.

Editors: Simao requested that we not make the with respect to the way we reference ITU-T Recommendations in H.225.0 and H.323, since that would produce a lot of change marks that are not technical changes. However, for H.460.geo (and H.460.23/24), we should make references according to this guidance.

With respect to H.323 and BER/PER references, the only reference to BER (as far as I know) is one of the Annex M.x sections. There, we do not encode or decode messages, but merely provide a tunneling mechanism for protocols defined elsewhere. As such, I would think we might want an informative reference to BER.

I'll be out of the office next week, so I might be slow in responding to any replies.

Paul

-----Original Message----- From: Olivier DUBUISSON [mailto:olivier.dubuisson@orange-ftgroup.com] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:43 AM To: Paul E. Jones Cc: itu-sg16@lists.packetizer.com; Sébastien Castano Subject: Re: [itu-sg16] Progressing work in Q2/16

Paul,

here are some editorial changes:

• H.323v7:

• it is better to remove the whitespace in front of each opening

parenthesis in an OID as it makes it easier to understand when a number is associated with an identifier and avoid any confusion in the case a number without an associated identifier is followed by a number (a possible case)

• clause 2: Add a reference to the ITU-T X.680 series as well as to

X.690 and X.691 since both BER and PER are mentioned; I see a normative reference to X.680 in Annex R: This is unusual!

• clause 4: OID is not defined as an acronym for Object-Id (I would

prefer not to use that acronym throughout the text, though!)

• Clause M4.5.3: Add an OID to the ASN.1 module; is this the only ASN.1

module in that standard?

• M5.3: 'i' missing in OBJECT IDENTIFIER in the first sentence

• H.225.0v7:

• Clause 2 doesn't reference the latest edition of the X.680 and X.690

series

• Annex H: Add an OID to the ASN.1 module
• Table VI.1: remove leading zeroes within icd-ecma(0012)
• it is also better to remove the whitespace in front of each opening

parenthesis in an OID as it makes it easier to understand when a number is associated with an identifier and avoid any confusion in the case a number without an associated identifier is followed by a number (a possible case)

• H.460.geo:

• Clause 2: replace "ISOC/IETF" with "IETF"

• General remark:

As approved by TSAG last year, the new way of referencing an ITU-T Recommendation is "Recommendation ITU-T H.xxx" in clause 2 and "ITU-T H.xxx" as a reference in the body.

I am Cc'ing Sébastien Castano from the TSB in case he can find some time to check the ASN.1 modules in H.323v7 and H.225.0v7. -- Olivier DUBUISSON, ITU-T ASN.1 & OID Project leader France Telecom NSM/RD/DDEV - BP 50702 - 22307 Lannion Cedex - France tel: +33 2 96 05 38 50 - fax: +33 1 58 15 52 05

Paul E. Jones wrote:

...

Q2/16 Experts,

There are several draft documents that are scheduled for consent at the October/November 2009 meeting in Q2. They are: H.323v7, H.323 Annex I (use of new FEC procedures defined in the IETF), H.225.0v7, H.460.geo (transmission of geographic information in H.323), H.460.23 (NAT determination), and H.460.24 (point-to-point media flow through NAT).

Pointers to the current editors’ draft documents can be found here:

http://www.packetizer.com/ipmc/h323/doc_status.html

I would like to kindly request that you give these documents a thorough review and do one of two things:

1.  Submit a contribution to the next SG16 meeting proposing changes
   

to these texts

2.  Provide your comments via the list or directly to the editor;
   

the editor will address any minor editorial issues in the text and prepare a contribution for technical changes (if necessary)

I want to keep these documents on schedule, so your input and comments would be very helpful.

Of course, if you have any questions or comments, I am more than happy to provide input.

Thanks,

Paul E. Jones

Rapporteur, ITU-T Q2/16