Re: [MMUSIC] New Draft: SDP Grouping Identifiers

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Tue, 03 December 2013 23:02 UTC

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On 12/3/13 12:47, Christer Holmberg wrote:
> There are parsers that do not necessarily keep the order when parsing an SDP body, why e.g. something that "enter" a SIP proxy is not necessarily what "comes out".

That would be folly, as we already (even in the base spec) have the idea 
of order significance; e.g.:

          Multiple sdplang
          attributes can be provided either at session or media level if
          multiple languages in the session description or media use
          multiple languages, in which case the order of the attributes
          indicates the order of importance of the various languages in
          the session or media from most important to least important.


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