Re: VOTE - Constraints Registry

On 10/08/2015 12:03 AM, Cullen Jennings wrote:
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> The PR for this is at 
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> https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-main/pull/256

This is a PR that could be a basis for work after a "YES / NO" decision
- where we have to work on some other registry.

If the initial question is NO ("no registry"), I think the PR to handle
that would be somewhat different; in particular, none of the questions
regarding how to manage and run the registry would be open questions.

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>> On Oct 6, 2015, at 5:18 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no
>> <mailto:harald@alvestrand.no>> wrote:
>>
>> In the current version of the “Media capture and streams” specification,
>> the following text appears in section 4.2.4, 4.3.5, 4.3.6 and 4.3.7.1
>> and 4.3.8
>>
>> “MediaTrackSupportedConstraints represents the list of constraints
>> recognized by a User Agent for controlling the Capabilities of a
>> MediaStreamTrack object.
>> Future specifications can extend the MediaTrackSupportedConstraints
>> dictionary by defining a partial dictionary with dictionary members of
>> type boolean and an identifier that is a Property Name registered in the
>> [RTCWEB-CONSTRAINTS] registry.”
>>
>> Section 11.2 describes the registry within the Constrainable pattern:
>>
>> “There is a single IANA registry that defines the constrainable
>> properties of all objects that implement the Constrainable pattern. The
>> registry entries must contain the name of each property along with its
>> set of legal values. The registry entries for MediaStreamTrack are
>> defined below. The syntax for the specification of the set of legal
>> values depends on the type of the values. In addition to the standard
>> atomic types (boolean, long, double, DOMString), legal values include
>> lists of any of the atomic types, plus min-max ranges, as defined below.”
>>
>> Section 14.1 contains the initial contents of this registry:
>>
>> “IANA is requested to register the following constrainable properties as
>> specified in [RTCWEB-CONSTRAINTS]:
>> The following constrainable properties are defined to apply to both
>> video and audio MediaStreamTrack objects:”
>>
>>> From the discussion in the Media Capture TF, it has become clear that
>> there is no consensus on whether the proposed registry is an appropriate
>> mechanism or not, and if it is not appropriate, whether it should be
>> replaced with some other form of registration, or whether no
>> registration mechanism is necessary.
>>
>> Given that the search for consensus has failed, this is a call for a
>> vote on the issue among member organizations participating in the DAP
>> and WebRTC WGs (the “parent” WGs of the Media Capture TF). The form of
>> the vote is designed to decide the direction we wish to go in, and give
>> guidance to the Task Force on what the text needs to say. There are two
>> questions, and each member organization is asked to respond to both
>> (i.e. do not skip the second even if the response to the first is “no”).
>>
>> QUESTION 1: SHOULD THE SPECIFICATION REFERENCE A REGISTRY?
>>
>> [  ] Yes
>> [  ] No
>>
>> If the majority is NO, the text in section 11.2 will be replaced with
>> “See section 14 for constraints defined by this specification. Other
>> specifications may define additional constraints.”
>> If the majority is YES, the next question will decide further work.
>>
>> QUESTION 2: SHOULD THE REGISTRY BE HOSTED AT IANA?
>>
>> [  ] Yes
>> [  ] No
>>
>> If the majority is YES, the current text will be retained unchanged.
>>
>> If the majority is NO, text referring to another registry will be
>> developed and inserted; the byte stream format registry
>> (https://w3c.github.io/media-source/byte-stream-format-registry.html) is
>> a possible candidate for a pattern to build on.
>>
>>
>> Logistics
>> =======
>> This vote runs from Tuesday, October 6 until Tuesday, October 13,
>> 23:59 GMT.
>> Each company that is a member of DAP or WEBRTC (or both) has one vote.
>> Please announce your vote by an email to the Media Capture Task Force
>> mailing list (public-media-capture@w3.org
>> <mailto:public-media-capture@w3.org>) , with the subject line
>> “VOTE: Constraints Registry”.
>>
>>
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