Re: [rtcweb] Microsoft tells W3C and IETF what we are doing no signs of offering real world interoperability

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

On 08/06/2012 09:27 PM, Rohit Puri wrote:
> Based on our experiences at TenHands Inc. where we are trying to build 
> a RT video-centric collaboration service, the goal cited in MSFT 
> proposal (http://html5labs.com/cu-rtc-web/cu-rtc-web.htm) namely:
>
> "*Flexibility in its support of popular media formats and codecs as 
> well as openness to future innovation*---A successful standard cannot 
> be tied to individual codecs, data formats or scenarios. They may soon 
> be supplanted by newer versions, which would make such a tightly 
> coupled standard obsolete just as quickly. The right approach is 
> instead to to support multiple media formats and to bring the bulk of 
> the logic to the application layer, enabling developers to innovate. "
>
> sounds like a great idea.
The WG agrees with you that multiple codecs should be supported, but the 
WG long ago came to consensus that there needs to be a 
mandatory-to-implement codec to prevent interoperability failure.
That consensus has been rough at times, but I believe it is still the 
consensus.

See section 2.3 of draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview.