Re: [rtcweb] About defining a signaling protocol for WebRTC (or not)

Lorenzo Miniero <lorenzo@meetecho.com> Thu, 15 September 2011 12:05 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Miniero <lorenzo@meetecho.com>
To: Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>
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Il giorno Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:52:38 +0200
Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> ha scritto:

> 2011/9/15 Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com>:
> > Are we saying that SDP is so impossible to parse that the only way
> > to do it is with a pre-existing native library ?!? If not I think
> > we can do that transformation (when needed) in JavaScript.
> 
> No, I just said that _maybe_ it wouldl be useful to provide such
> parsing functions natively (given the fact that various protocol use
> SDP bodies, as SIP and XMPP).
> 
> I'm fine with parsing SDP bodies in custom JavaScript code however :)
> 


I don't understand the need for it to be SDP actually: Javascript
already has native and efficient ways to describe information (JSON,
XML), if SDP is what everybody wants then it would be easier to just
map SDP over them.

L.

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