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

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.

I have not gone through the MSFT proposal yet and do not consider myself to
be a browser expert, but if it were possible to have flexibility in the
webRTC framework to the extent that a client developer could use their own
"algorithms" in the media pipeline, that would be awesome. Concretely, some
algorithms that come to mind include (a) pre-processing of captured media
(b) any choice of codecs (b) bandwidth adaptation (c) post-processing of
decoded media (d) CPU adaptation.  There is probably many more.

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Luca De Cicco <ldecicco@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that the proposed "customizable response to changing network
> quality" is a good idea.
> Wiring the adaptation logic into webrtc would make it less flexible to
> different needs in particular
> applications. Of course a default adaptation logic should be implemented
> in the browser.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Luca De Cicco, PhD
> Politecnico di Bari
> Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica
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>
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Cullen Jennings (fluffy) <fluffy@cisco.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> I see that Microsoft decided to wait until the W3C and IETF were close to
>> done before putting together a proposal that, if accepted, would explode
>> most the current works and create maximal delay on this work.
>>
>> http://blogs.skype.com/en/2012/08/customizable_ubiquitous_real_t.html
>>
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Thanks and best regards,

Rohit Puri (rohit.puri@tenhands.net)
Software Development, TenHands Inc. (www.tenhands.net)
My TenHands URL: http://tenhands.net/rohit.puri@tenhands.net