Re: [rtcweb] How to multiplex between peers

[Magnus Westerlund <[e-mail]>]

On 2011-07-21 00:38, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> On 7/20/2011 3:31 PM, Colin Perkins wrote:
>> On 20 Jul 2011, at 22:15, Aron Rosenberg wrote:

> 
> So let me get this straight... RTP and RTCP is broken and inflexible and 
> therefore we must use it, and use it in the broken and inflexible way?

And Matthew we haven't argued against attempting to fix the big issue
you see with it, namely that it requires a lower layer to separate RTP
sessions. We just don't see it happing quickly or in the way you
proposed. But I think we are going to very seriously consider attempting
to do something about the short coming in AVTCORE.

> 
> If anything this is an argument for ignoring RTP and RTCP and doing 
> something entirely new that is actually appropriate for what we're 
> trying to build, not living with crap just because there's an RFC for it.

I don't think we have an realistic alternative of doing something new. I
would love to develop a new real-time media transport protocol. I just
think that it will take 3 years before we are close to having something
published. I also fear that it might suffer from second system syndrome
and be hellishly complex.

I also don't think it helps the people that want to gateway to their
legacy systems.

Do you have any other well defined media transport alternative for us to
use?

Cheers

Magnus Westerlund

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