Re: [HOME_NETWORK_TF] Final changes to the requirement document

On 3/10/11 12:14 , Giuseppe Pascale wrote:
> Hi all,
> in order to finalize the requirement document, I would like to ask you 
> feedback about the following two potential changes. If no objection is 
> raised I'll go ahead and apply them:
>
> * Gap Analysis:
> - add a section "Gap Analysis" to "1.9 Categorization of Requirements 
> and next steps", after "1.9.1 Requirement Categorization"
> - add the following text to such a section:
>
> "==Gaps==
> A close analysis and discussion of the use-cases and requirements 
> described in this document, lead the group to conclude that the 
> **major** gap in the Open Web platform is the lack of means for an 
> application to discover services and applications available on the 
> home network. Filling such a gap will probably allow the coverage of 
> most (if not all) requirements listed in this documents.
>
> Some concerns were raised *about whether* the discovery alone is 
> enough to address advertisements requirements especially for support 
> of existing protocols such as UPnP. In fact, advertisements itself 
> could be implemented as a service so that applications can discover it 
> and then register to be advertised on the network. Such a service 
> m*a*y be provided by the UA itself (i.e. the functionality is provided 
> by the UA but exposed as a service). Is not clear though (lucking 
> implementations of this) if this approach will be enough flexible and 
> efficient. The discussion will have to be deferred to the point in 
> time when such discovery implementation will be available."
JCD: OK (I propose two fixes to the text)

>
> * Requirements about content player discovery/control
> Some concerns were raised that the following requirements can be 
> actually considered as part of the equivalent generic service 
> advertisement/control/discovery:
> - 1.6.2.4 Content Players Discovery,
> - 1.6.3.1 Control of content players
> - 1.6.3.2 Control of content recorders
>
> What should I do with them? Should I remove them from our document? 
> I'm personally fine removing them.
JCD: OK to remove or keep, with a preference to remove

>
> * Content Discovery/advertisement
> Some concerns were raised that also content discovery/advertisement 
> may be included in the generic service discovery/advertisement. The 
> requirements are:
> - 1.6.2.3 Content Discovery
> - 1.6.2.5 Content Advertisement
> What should I do with them? Keep them or remove? I think is still 
> valuable to keep them, since is an important requirement that could 
> actually require something more then generic service 
> discovery/advertisement
JCD: OK to remove or keep, with a preference to remove
Best regards
JC
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