Thread Subject: Re: video support language - revised language

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From: Peter Korn
Date: Mon, Oct 01 2007 1:35 PM

Hi Karen,

I'm sorry I wasn't on the call. I imagine there is more context to the
text below - that it is part of a specific provision that scopes where
it applies. Perhaps I'm mistaken.

In any case, to my question: are you saying with this text below that
every agency must provide for real-time-video communications for all
employees? I don't believe we today require that the federal government
provide every employee with a phone at their desk (though that is
commonly done), or a computer, or.. But taken out of context, this text
seems to suggest that every employee must have access to real-time-video
communication, and if there are security concerns, that this be done on
a private network to a private terminal.

Is that the intent of your language?


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

P.S. I do appreciate

> Here is what I think we agreed on. However, it does not include
> mention of H.323.
>
> Video Support
>
> 1. Each agency must ensure the ability of individuals to have
> communication access via point to point real time video
> communications and video relay services for incoming and
> outgoing calls.
> 2. Communication products or systems that are used to transmit
> video communications in real time between and among individuals
> must support interoperability to permit communication between
> and among users of terminals from different manufacturers and
> service providers.
> 3. Communication products or systems that are used to transmit
> video communications in real time between and among individuals
> must provide an external flashing system that is capable of
> alerting users of incoming calls.
> 4. At a minimum, video communications must support 15 frames per
> second, QCIF resolution, and a latency of less than 400
> milliseconds, in order to provide sufficient quality and fluency
> that will support real time video communication in which one or
> more parties are using sign language or is talking in the picture.
> 5. Where security concerns are present, this subpart remains in
> effect, but may be achieved by measures that prevent an
> individual’s video communications from intermingling with
> packets of the general government network, for example, through
> the installation of a separate line to an isolated
> communications terminal.
>
> Advisory note: The requirement to permit video communications in real
> time includes the ability to send and receive video mail, much in the
> same way that voice telephone users are able to send and receive voice
> mail.
>
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