Re: [rtcweb] We are moving beyond the assumptions on which O/A is based

[Ted Hardie <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Paul Kyzivat <[e-mail]> wrote:

> In clue we are addressing that by exchanging (in a separate channel)
> advertisements of what the endpoints are willing to send, and only doing
> O/A to set up the media that is of interest.
>
> In rtcweb it isn't so structured, but I suspect something is happening
> implicitly, though it may be more hard-wired per application.
>

So, I repeat what I said before, I think you can get to there in RTCWEB,
but it won't be the same way pokerstars gets to where it wants to go.

The simplest thing I can imagine, to just put it out there, is to start
RTCWEB with just a data channel, pass the clue messages on top, then start
the media channels after that's done.  That seems to be reasonably in line
with what you've described above and it's well within the RTCWEB APIs.

What won't happen is for *every* application to adopt that procedure; some
will want behaviour that looks closer to vanilla offer/answer; some will
want behaviour that is more-or-less directed by the server, and some will
want blueberry jam (that is, something we don't know about yet).

regards,

Ted