RE: Media Types in 3GPP Timed text draft (was: RE: [AVT] RTP andMedia Types)

["Jose Rey" <rey at panasonic.de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Singer [mailto:singer at apple.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:44 PM
> To: Jose Rey; Magnus Westerlund
> Cc: IETF AVT WG
> Subject: RE: Media Types in 3GPP Timed text draft (was: RE: [AVT] RTP
> andMedia Types)
>
>
> At 6:30 PM +0200 8/12/04, Jose Rey wrote:
> >Dave, Magnus
> >
> >--cut--
> >>  >
> >>  >As I said in my previous email, registering under 'text' top
> level type
> >>  >would mean that the modifiers cannot be used.
> >>
> >>  why is that true?  does text/* only admit of plain text?  so, for
> >>  example, text/html would not be permitted either??
> >>
> >
> >This is what I understand from the slides from Colin presented during the
> >meeting (see in http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~csp/IETF60-AVT-Tue.zip,
> >"09-RTP-Media-Types.pdf"). Specially slide three where it says:
> >
> >". In particular, it is expected that text media types are "to some
> >extent readable even without the software that interprets them"
> >- RFC 2046
> >- This rule is derived from email client behaviour; want to pass
> the message
> >to a dumb pager if there's no better display option"
> >
> >Colin or Magnus may please correct me if I got it wrong...
> >
> >Jose
>
> OK, is the distinction between:
>
> payloads that not only carry text, but are also expressed in
> (possibly marked-up) text, such as HTMl, XML, RTF, and so on
>
> payloads that display or carry text, but are expressed partly or
> fully in binary, such as 3GPP timed text, word documents, and so on?
>

Yes.




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