[gmpi] Re: Where are we?: 7.1.2/Untangling issues

More info is needed to proceed, but too many issues are tangled at the moment. So I suggest splitting the requirements collection into the constituent parts we've been arguing about, but this time with consideration for all the different areas GMPI is supposed to address (there's more than just DAW and mobile in the list), before anyone jumps to the solutions. Jumping to the solutions is what's been stopping us.

-- Chris G.

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I see the questions as the following. Q's 1-4 collect the data, 5 makes a decision, 6 & 7 cover how we address the decision outcome (I think we could just as well have asked 1-5 for the multichannel audio formats too).

1 - For each of the areas GMPI is intended to address, what sample data types are currently appropriate? (Make no attempt to reduce the set, just list them.)

2 - For each of the areas GMPI is intended to address, what sample data types are reasonably foreseeable in the next (say) four years? (Make no attempt to reduce the set, just list them.)

3 - For each of the areas GMPI is intended to address, are multiple sample data types within a single graph required?

4 - For each of the areas GMPI is intended to address, are multiple sample data type pins per plug required?

5 - In the (likely) event that the set of areas GMPI is intended to address has sufficiently different data type requirements as to make supporting all of them too cumbersome or expensive (in the opinion of enough developers), is it necessary to do anything in the official documents to keep any of the areas separated from the other, for either technical or marketing or other reasons?

6 - If the answer to 5 is Yes, then how, exactly, should the official documents achieve this separation? (E.g., with technical API-level measures?; with technical option(parameter)-limiting measures?; with industry-consensus or market mechanisms?; on a per-project basis?; or through some combination of these?)

7 - If the answer to 5 is No, then what, if any, mechanism outside of the official documents is needed to handle the situation?


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