Re: [rtcweb] Forking & Early Media - Was Re: Minimal SDP negotiation mechanism

Cullen Jennings <fluffy@cisco.com> Thu, 22 September 2011 13:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Forking & Early Media - Was Re: Minimal SDP negotiation mechanism
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On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:

>> 
>> To simplify this problem, Cary and my draft proposes not allowing forking on the SIP side of the signaling gateway but still allowing early media. If you wanted to do do forking in this case, one would need a SBC that processed media and turned the forked medial legs into one media leg. 
> 
> Obviously you can request that a request not be forked, using caller-prefs, but you can't "not allow" forking on the SIP side.  That would make it not SIP.  I know forking is hard, but that's life.  It's not appropriate for this WG to make fundamental changes/limitations to the SIP protocol, just because some of it's "hard" for a browser. 

I'll note that Cary and my draft has been putting serious limitation on SIP since the beginning and we have yet to receive a comment on that. You do realize the outcome of this decision would be that you needed an SBC between the SIP to WEB Gateway and any SIP network that forked so that SBC could isolate the other side from the forks. As full disclosure, really, I don't own any ACME stock :-) 

Clearly one could support forking in the browsers and equally obviously, that complicates things fairly significantly. The question will be if the complexity is worth the end user gain in functionality.