Re: [rtcweb] On babies and bathwater (was Re: Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface)

Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca> Sat, 20 July 2013 00:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] On babies and bathwater (was Re: Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface)
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On Jul 19, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Matthew Kaufman (SKYPE) <matthew.kaufman@skype.net> wrote:

> From: Martin Thomson [mailto:martin.thomson@gmail.com]
>> 
>> Negotiation is a hole.  A vast, soul-sucking, waste of time.
> 
> And negotiation over SDP requires a trip to MMUSIC every time you think of something new, too. That's a soul-sucking waste of time *itself*.
> 
> Matthew Kaufman

Better than a trip to W3C, IETF, and XSF