[maitai] Roles of Sender and Receiver

Peter Musgrave <peter.musgrave@magorcorp.com> Thu, 02 December 2010 12:51 UTC

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Hi, 

I have been pondering possible ways of representing a room configuration - but I think I need to back up and ask a question about basic interop architecture. 

In the selection of content on a stream, who is the active decision making entity, sender - or receiver - or both?

Consider a three display, 3 camera (3d3c) room A sending to a 1d1c room B. 

Does A offer all three streams to B and let B pick? (This leads in the direction of dynamic changes based on B, which is powerful but leads us into continuous control...)
Does A determine B has only one display and select which video B should get and send only one stream?

IHMO an approach which lets B have control over what it gets is more powerful. e.g. If I have heard the pitch from the speaker 100 times, I want to watch the customer and see if they are engaged, rather than watch the active speaker blather on....

Peter