> On Aug 10, 2018, at 2:33 PM, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> S 5.2.
> >         The remaining channel mapping families (2...254) are reserved.  A
> >         demuxer implementation encountering a 'channel mapping family'
> >         value that it does not recognize SHOULD NOT attempt to decode the
> >         packets and SHOULD NOT use any information except for the first 19
> >         octets of the ID header packet (Fig. 2) and the comment header
> >         (Fig. 10).
> 
> What is the rationale for this change? Also, why are you doing it in
> this document? This seems like it's going to be extremely hard for
> implementors to find in future.
> 
> These paragraphs are updates to RFC 7845, which needed to be revised to 
> accommodate the proposed channel mapping families in this draft.
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand. Why did they need to be revised to have this 
> change?
> 
> 
> The authors of RFC 7845 and RFC 6716 suggested that the necessary updates to 
> RFC 7845 should be included in this draft.
> 
> I understand, but my point is that people are likely to ignore this draft if 
> they don't care about ambisonics and thereby miss out on a relevant 
> information. In any case, I'll defer to the WG and AD.
> 

Closing the loop on this point:

We have commonly put updates to RFCs in the documents that create the need for 
the updates, even if the update is generally applicable. We have the 
“Updates/Updated by” relationships to track this sort of thing.

I am sympathetic to Ekr’s argument, in that I agree it would be more convenient 
for the reader to find the update in a smaller, dedicated draft. But at this 
point in the process, I highly doubt the wg has the energy to do that sort of 
restructuring. Therefore I am inclined to leave this the way it is.

Thanks,

Ben.




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