Re: [rtcweb] Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface

Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com> Mon, 08 July 2013 14:48 UTC

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From: Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 07:47:59 -0700
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface
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On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>wrote:

> On 7/8/13 8:40 AM, Peter Thatcher wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca
> > <mailto:fluffy@iii.ca>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     On Jul 3, 2013, at 2:42 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net
> >     <mailto:ibc@aliax.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     > So compatibility with SIP is important but compatibility with
> >     Jingle is just impossible.
> >
> >     The mapping of SDP to jingle is in the Jingle specs … I'm not
> >     express any opinion on this one way or another other but the authors
> >     of theses specs have always claimed Jingle fully mapped to and from
> SDP.
> >
> >
> > I think he meant "impossible without SDP munging", which I think is
> > undeniable.
>
> What do you mean by "SDP munging"?
>

I mean that if the JS wants to send Jingle XML over the wire, it has to
parse the SDP.  Then, when it receives Jingle XML, it has to serialize SDP.
  That parsing and serializing of SDP I call "munging".  We could come up
with better words for more specific activities, but that seems to be the
word everyone else uses, so it's what I've used.




>
> As we know, various things are being added to SDP. The Jingle specs have
> not necessarily been updated yet to track those changes, although
> proposals have been made on several points. If folks want to keep Jingle
> in sync, that work would need to happen at the XSF. Feel free to join
> the jingle@xmpp.org list if you have proposals:
>
> http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jingle
>
> Peter
>
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