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6.1. <ins> Within sec-trans, the term "Media Transport Protocol" is used to describe to describe the protocol of interest.  This is easier to understand if the reader assumes a protocol stack that looks something like this: where "Media Format" would be something like an RTP payload format RFC2736 or ISOBMFF ISOBMFF, "Media Transport Protocol" would be something like RTP or HTTP, and "Transport Protocol" would be something like TCP or UDP. Not all possible streaming media applications follow this model, but for the ones that do, it seems useful to have names for the protocol layers between Media Format and Transport Layer It is worth noting explicitly that the Media Transport Protocol and Transport Protocol layers might each include more than one protocol. For example, a Media Transport Protocol might run over HTTP, or over WebTransport, which in turn runs over HTTP. It is worth noting explicitly that more complex network protocol stacks are certainly possible - for instance, packets with this protocol stack may be carried in a tunnel, or in a VPN.  If these environments are present, streaming media operators may need to analyze their effects on applications as well. 6.2. </ins> For most of the history of the Internet, we have trusted UDP-based applications to limit their impact on other users.  One of the strategies used was to use UDP for simple query-response application

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text: It would be more useful to analyze the impact of Wifi and 4G/5G networks in one place. Some of this follows later in sections 3.2.1 and Yet, the split between these three sections is unclear. Having a discussion about today's Internet path characteristics and the dynamics at one place could be more useful. The text could also better distinguish between what matters to endpoints and considerations relevant only for middleboxes (such as passive monitors). Section 3.3 Path Requirements The statement "to find the bandwidth requirements for a router on the delivery path" may assume that the bottleneck on the path will be routers. Yet, on a path the bottlenecks could also be a link layer device (e.g., an Ethernet Switch, a Wifi access point, etc.). RFC 6077 (specifically Section 3.1.3) also explains that issue. A better wording may be "to find the bandwidth requirements for a delivery path". Section 3.6. Unpredictable Usage Profiles / Section 3.7. Extremely Unpredictable Usage Profiles I am not fully convinced by the distinction between "unpredictable" and "extremely unpredictable". To me, these two sections could be merged and maybe also be shortened. More specifically, Section 3.7 lists a lot of statistics from the past. What is IMHO a bit missing in Section 3.7 are actual operational considerations. For instance, are there any lessons learnt for the future? Note that Section 3.6 has a reasonable conclusion at the end. Section 4. Latency Considerations and Section 4.1. Ultra Low-Latency I am surprised by the definition "ultra low-latency (less than 1 second)", as well as some of the other numbers. For other real-time communication use cases, "ultra low-latency" would probably imply a latency requirement of the order of one millisecond. For instance, isochronous traffic for motion control in industrial networks may require a latency of 1 ms, and such "ultra-low latency" requirements are discussed elsewhere, e.g., in the DetNet WG. The terminology in this section should be better explained to readers dealing with networked systems with much harder latency requirements.