Re: [rtcweb] Support DTMF "codec" or expose DTMF in signaling? (Re: DTMF usecase before DTMF API)

Matthew Kaufman <matthew.kaufman@skype.net> Fri, 18 November 2011 10:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Support DTMF "codec" or expose DTMF in signaling? (Re: DTMF usecase before DTMF API)
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On 11/18/11 6:05 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> 2011/11/18 Harald Alvestrand<harald@alvestrand.no>:
>>> H.323 and SIP both offer a signaling-plane means of indicating DTMF, other
>>> than RFC 2833/4733.  For H.323 it's H.245 User Input Indications (UII)
>>> messages.  For SIP it's officially KPML (RFC 4730), but in practice it's not
>>> popular.  Two vendors I know of support it, but it's a drop in the bucket
>>> compared to rfc2833 or SIP INFO.
>> OK, thanks.
>>
>> So the discussion that is really part of the IETF's task here is to pick one
>> (and preferably one) way that WebRTC applications are recommended to do
>> DTMF.
> In case http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kaplan-dispatch-info-dtmf-package-00
> becomes a standard, there is no need to send DTMF over the media
> stream (when interoperating with SIP networks). Since this just
> concerns the in-the-wire signaling it becomes up to the application
> developer.
>
>
Are you advocating that we not put DTMF-in-media support in browsers (in 
which case I have a good argument against), or are you simply making an 
observation about an alternative that may also become available?

Matthew Kaufman