Re: [MMUSIC] M-line philosophy (Re: Wisdom sought: Prioritization of codecs)

[Adam Roach <[e-mail]>]

On 11/19/12 10:04, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> On 11/19/2012 04:38 PM, Adam Roach wrote:
>>
>>
>> There are, at the moment, 176 attributes in the IANA registry that 
>> are applicable to m= sections:
>> ...
>> Some of these are applicable to the RTP session; others only make 
>> sense as applied to a single media stream.
> And some make absolutely no sense at all in the RTCWEB context.

Perhaps not for RTCWEB, but I'm fairly certain that we'd like to see the 
same solutions applies to CLUE as RTCWEB. I concede that some of these 
are applicable only to technologies that are dead or dying; however...

> I have at one point in my life dealt with T-series fax

...T.38 fax isn't one of them. Sadly.

It sure would be nice to discount all of the existing mechanisms, but I 
suspect that they're not as wholly worthless are you're implying. 
Perhaps when I have a bit more time, I'll sit down and do a 
mechanism-by-mechanism evaluation of applicability of each to RTCWEB and 
CLUE. Until then, I expect it's relatively safe to assume that people 
haven't been putting values into that registry by performing utterly 
meaningless work; and, further, that only a fraction of it has been 
overtaken by technological progress.

/a