H.245 In the Media Gateway

[Tom-PT Taylor]

Pete,

Sorry. I did indeed believe that you were saying that a vendor could take
ownership of an IE, which would be a proprietary and rather dangerous
solution. "We" or "SG16" in place of "you" might have been a better choice of
words. Your first solution is still proprietary, though. Your counter argument
is weak because one could use it for all otherwise proprietary features, e.g.,
"only send H.261 on a channel established for H.263 to an entity that you
trust to expect this."

Paul Long
Smith Micro Software, Inc.

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Pete Cordell [SMTP:pete.cordell at BTINTERNET.COM]
        Sent:   Wednesday, May 12, 1999 6:27 AM
        To:     ITU-SG16 at MAILBAG.INTEL.COM
        Subject:        Re: caller ID and implementer's guide

        Paul,

        I disagree that these are proprietary solutions.

        The first is a matter of policy and so falls into a slightly grey
area, but
        ideally the standard would say something like 'only send presentation
        restricted information to an entity that you trust to honour the
request.'

        The second is definitely NOT an action you could take at a proprietary
level
        as the standards body still holds the right to define new IEs.  Any
such
        action would have to be approved by the standards body.  When I said
'...YOU
        could take further ownership...', the 'you' was intended to refer to
SG16.

        As such a change is small and localised, it would be safe to implement
it
        even if it was mentioned only in a determined document (which is the
way the
        procedure is supposed to work after all anyway!) which could be
achieved at
        the Chile meeting.  A fix in the ASN.1 would have to wait for the
decided
        version as that needs to wait until all such additions are present.

        Pete

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        Pete Cordell
        pete.cordell at btinternet.com
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