EWG:Draft Oct 26 Video Support

5-F - Video Support

This page is the text proposed in the Nov Plenary Meeting.

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Proposed text in Oct 26 draft:

1. Each agency must ensure the availability of communication access via point to point real-time video communications and video relay services for incoming and outgoing calls for individuals who need such access. This includes the requirement to provide a non-auditory means of alerting users of incoming 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;
   • have a built-in non auditory alerting system or provide compatibility with an external non-auditory alerting system that is capable of alerting users of incoming calls; and
   • at a minimum, 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.
3. 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.

NOTES:

1. 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.
2. Twenty frames per second or better is recommended to facilitate lip reading and fingerspelling in the video communications provided under this section.
3. Explanatory information concerning sign language and lip-reading real-time conversation using low bit rate video communication can be found in ITU-T H-Series Supplement 1. http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.Sup1/en.
4. Non-auditory alerting for incoming video communications can be achieved via flashes, vibrations and sound; the preferred method will depend on the needs of the individual using the product.

Comments from NASCIO:
Agency requirements do not belong in "technical requirements" to be applied to EIT products/services. This includes 1.2-A, 1.2-C, 5-A, 5-F (1) & (3), and 7.2-A. These might all be adopted as agency policies (perhaps with much more specificity applicable to implementation in that agency), but not as EIT technical standards.

Notes from November plenary:
Agreed to:

• Move 1 & 3 to new section.
• Note 1 moves to new section.
• Notes 2-4 stay with video support.