Re: [rtcweb] New Draft - WebRTC JS Object API Model

Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan@oracle.com> Sat, 06 July 2013 14:58 UTC

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Well in our defense, #9 wasn't our argument - that was the argument the browser makers themselves raised two years ago on the deciding conference call for why the browsers should be doing SDP rather than a real API.  In fact if I recall right, I think that was the main deciding argument for why browsers shouldn't offer a lower-level API.

-hadriel


On Jul 3, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:

> 2013/7/3 Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan@oracle.com>:
>> You might also want to cite some of the reasons noted in this old draft:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kaplan-rtcweb-api-reqs-01
> 
> Well, section "3. Defining a WebRTC Protocol in the Browser" says:
> 
> 
>   9) Using the SDP offer/answer model provides a more rigid API
>     interaction model, enabling Browser vendors to perform less
>     testing and provide more robust implementations than exposing all
>     discrete components to a Javascript API would.
> 
>   10)   Using a higher-level API model, such as would be done with an
>     SDP offer/answer model, means the cross-browser vendor-specific
>     variances would be reduced.  Exposing a lower-level API would
>     inevitably lead to some differences in different browsers due to
>     differences in their architectures/implementation.
> 
> 
> Time to reconsider those assertions? ;)
> 
> 
> --
> Iñaki Baz Castillo
> <ibc@aliax.net>