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

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Mon, 08 July 2013 14:45 UTC

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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 7/8/13 8:40 AM, Peter Thatcher wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca
> <mailto:fluffy@iii.ca>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On Jul 3, 2013, at 2:42 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net
>     <mailto:ibc@aliax.net>> wrote:
> 
>     > So compatibility with SIP is important but compatibility with
>     Jingle is just impossible.
> 
>     The mapping of SDP to jingle is in the Jingle specs … I'm not
>     express any opinion on this one way or another other but the authors
>     of theses specs have always claimed Jingle fully mapped to and from SDP.
> 
> 
> I think he meant "impossible without SDP munging", which I think is
> undeniable.

What do you mean by "SDP munging"?

As we know, various things are being added to SDP. The Jingle specs have
not necessarily been updated yet to track those changes, although
proposals have been made on several points. If folks want to keep Jingle
in sync, that work would need to happen at the XSF. Feel free to join
the jingle@xmpp.org list if you have proposals:

http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jingle

Peter

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