Re: [rtcweb] Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Thu, 04 July 2013 08:21 UTC

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From: Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:21:06 +0200
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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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2013/7/4 Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>:
> Looking back at your posts from back then, I see you did in fact suggest
> a set of API modifications that would have included an abstract session
> description. That would in fact have made Jingle somewhat (though not
> really that much) easier. So my last sentence here is unfair. My apologies.

Initially I though that SessionDescription was a powerful JS Object
with all the fields and attributes to construct a SDP, so a developer
could extract those media/transport fields and create a SDP via JS. At
the same time, the SessionDescription object would include helper
methods (defined by the WebRTC API) to build a plain SDP (i.e. toSDP)
and some others like XML-SDP (i.e. toXMLSDP).



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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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