[rtcweb] revisiting MTI

[Peter Saint-Andre - &yet <[e-mail]>]

On 12/15/14, 12:24 PM, John Leslie wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre - &yet <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The IETF can *always* obsolete one RFC (e.g., one that says "dual-MTI
>> for H.264 and VP8") with another RFC (e.g., one that says "no more
>> dual-MTI for H.264 and VP8, we have much better options now"). That's a
>> core aspect of the Internet Standards Process.
>
>     This is, of course, true...
>
>     But we don't obsolete a MTI because "we have much better options":
> we obsolete a MTI because "nobody's using it anymore".

Actually we can obsolete an MTI for any reason we please, at long as 
there's IETF consensus to do so.

>     We are all trusting, I hope, that VP9, H.265, etc. will "just be
> used in preference" as soon as two endpoints support them.
>
>     I don't expect to revisit the MTI selection...

I do. It's a question of when.

> (That is what we
> want, right?)

Not as far as I can see.

Ten years ago if we'd had this discussion, H.261 might have been MTI. 
Ten years from now, H.264 will seem ancient, too.

I fully expect that someone in the IETF (perhaps not us) will revisit 
the MTI decision once we have better alternatives.

Peter