RE: Common feature sets: scenarios, term

[email protected] (Reynolds Franklin NRC/Boston)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.medfree
Organization Nokia Telecommunications
Message-ID <[email protected]>

>Scenarios:
>----------
>
>(S1) [per W3C CC/PP paper] providing a shorthand mechanism to capture the
>common characteristics of some identifiable device or system, which may
>then be augmented by additional information.  If such a feature set is
>considered an appropriate unit for caching, this can reduce the need to
>transfer *all* characteristics, only those that are different from some
>baseline set.
>
>(S2) [per <draft-ietf-fax-feature-schema-05>, Appendix B] providing a means
>to indicate standard feature sets.
>
>(S3) Providing an expression of corporate policy with respect to
>media capabilities.
>
>(S4) Consider a web server offering several variants of a resource, each
>having several features in common and a relatively small number of key
>differences.  It is desirable that the common features can be described
>just once, and the variants can simply describe their differences from that
>common set.
>

Practically speaking, I don't think I understand (S3). Why would anyone
want to provide a corporate policy with respect to media capabilities?
What would be a reasonable example of such a policy?

Franklin Reynolds
Nokia Research Center
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