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Re: [rtcweb] New Draft - WebRTC JS Object API Model

Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at> Mon, 01 July 2013 19:22 UTC

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From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:22:01 -0700
To: Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] New Draft - WebRTC JS Object API Model
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> Honestly, I have read it and I don't see how you avoid mandating some standard
> interface between the JS and browser.  That needn't be SDP, but if it is causing the
> two sides to negotiate candidate transports and emit RTP, it's going to be hard going
> to avoid it being SDPNG.

This lack of imagination among people designing the APIs we are supposed to use is disturbing.

Have you read, just as an example, the CU-RTCWEB API? It achieves a browser API without resorting to SDP or anything like it.

If you insist on Offer/Answer *and* "opaque" blobs (that we all know people will modify anyway), then sure, SDP looks attractive... But that's just a failure to imagine a world where VoIP isn't based on SIP and SDP O/A.

Matthew Kaufman

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