Re: [Bug 20816] "Hold" unspecified

19 apr 2013 kl. 15:54 skrev Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>:

> On 04/19/2013 03:47 PM, Iņaki Baz Castillo wrote:
>> 2013/4/19 Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>:
>>> So first:
>>> 
>>> - What do you mean by "hold"?
>> "Putting a peer on hold" means:
>> 
>> 1) Muting my local streams.
>> 2) And tell the peer about it.
> 
> That's funny, because it's exactly the opposite definition as the one Olle dug up from RFC 5359 (where "hold" is Bob's demand that Alice cease transmission).
> 
> Can we use one term for one thing?
> 

Going back to Newtons Telecom Dictionary:

"Hold: To temporarily leave a phone call without disconnecting it. You can return to the call at any time, sometimes from other extensions. There are several types of HOLD on a telephony system. How they work and what lamping they put on instruments varies from phone system to phone system."

/O

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