Re: [rtcweb] On babies and bathwater (was Re: Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface)

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Fri, 19 July 2013 18:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] On babies and bathwater (was Re: Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface)
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On 7/19/13 13:47, Peter Thatcher wrote:
>  Do you really believe all of them are naive and full of hubris?

No, I think they're using an API that is nowhere near finished yet, 
which is necessarily going to be painful. The complaints are legitimate.

The scapegoating of SDP is what's misguided.

/a