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Re: [rtcweb] Proposal for a JS API for NoPlan (adding multiple sources without encoding them in SDP)

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 19 June 2013 17:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Proposal for a JS API for NoPlan (adding multiple sources without encoding them in SDP)
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On 19 June 2013 08:15, Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, Microsoft's input seems to be "our way or the highway"

The good thing about this forum is that correcting gross
misrepresentation is as easy as it is to propagate it.

Microsoft's input is that Offer/Answer is difficult to remove without
also removing a reliance on SDP at the same time.  CU-RTC-Web is a
demonstration of one solution to that problem that we believe is
workable.  That proposal was input, not ultimatum.  We'd be happy to
consider other alternatives, but we don't believe that any attempt
that retains both O/A and SDP to be a worthwhile step.

The proposals I've seen for incremental refinement don't successfully
avoid the SDPNG trap.  Most increase the API surface area, often
dramatically, which burdens both browser implementations and API
users.  I personally don't believe it to be possible to avoid this
problem without tackling the core problem, which unfortunately
requires a little bit of courage.

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