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

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Wed, 03 July 2013 21:21 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:20:41 -0700
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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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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com> wrote:

> Camp #0:  I've used SDP for years and I'm very comfortable with it.  Using
> SDP as the control surface really helps my use case, which is legacy
> interop.  Defining an API without SDP would be too much work, and probably
> fail.  Look at what happened with SDPng!  Supporting all these advanced use
> cases doesn't seem worth it.   If developers are doing that much advanced
> stuff, they can learn to munge SDP.  It isn't that bad.
>

Hmm... That's not my understanding of the situation at all.

Rather, I believe the expectation is that you shouldn't have to modify the
SDP but rather there should be API points to cover most of the use cases
that people want. This isn't to say that all those API points exist or that
they work or whatever.

-Ekr

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