Re: [rtcweb] About defining a signaling protocol for WebRTC (or not)

Henry Sinnreich <henry.sinnreich@gmail.com> Thu, 15 September 2011 21:18 UTC

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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:20:50 -0500
From: Henry Sinnreich <henry.sinnreich@gmail.com>
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+1

Thanks, Henry


On 9/15/11 7:02 AM, "Lorenzo Miniero" <lorenzo@meetecho.com> wrote:

> Il giorno Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:52:38 +0200
> Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> ha scritto:
> 
>> 2011/9/15 Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com>:
>>> Are we saying that SDP is so impossible to parse that the only way
>>> to do it is with a pre-existing native library ?!? If not I think
>>> we can do that transformation (when needed) in JavaScript.
>> 
>> No, I just said that _maybe_ it wouldl be useful to provide such
>> parsing functions natively (given the fact that various protocol use
>> SDP bodies, as SIP and XMPP).
>> 
>> I'm fine with parsing SDP bodies in custom JavaScript code however :)
>> 
> 
> 
> I don't understand the need for it to be SDP actually: Javascript
> already has native and efficient ways to describe information (JSON,
> XML), if SDP is what everybody wants then it would be easier to just
> map SDP over them.
> 
> L.