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 14:56 UTC

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From: Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 07:56:13 -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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I'm fine with "mangle".


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Philipp Hancke <fippo@goodadvice.pages.de>wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Peter Thatcher 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.
>>
>
> I think "mangle" is a better term here. People who want to do jingle are
> aware of the fact that this is more difficult than running their own
> proprietary stuff over xml. Or use SoX :-)