Re: [rtcweb] Proposal for a JS API for NoPlan (adding multiple sources without encoding them in SDP)

[Silvia Pfeiffer <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Harald Alvestrand
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> On 06/19/2013 04:35 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Max Jonas Werner <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hej Silvia,
>>>
>>> On 18.06.2013 08:25, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at
>>> 4:17 PM, Emil Ivov <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18.06.13, 03:00, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What I would like to see, though, is a bit different from what you've
>>>>>> proposed. In particular, the MediaFlowDescription object is the one
>>>>>> object that I believe is supposed to enable JS developers to  do "SDP
>>>>>> hacking" without having to understand SDP. Unfortunately, the way in
>>>>>> which it is currently written, this API doesn't help a JS developer
>>>>>> much. There are properties in that object like "ssrc" that mean
>>>>>> nothing unless you understand SDP.
>>>>>
>>>>> SSRC is really just a flow identifier and it actually comes from RTP,
>>>>> not
>>>>> SDP.
>>>>
>>>> OK, could we call it rtpflowId or mediaflowId or peerflowId or
>>>> something? And what exactly are the other identifiers?
>>>> (You will notice that I am really naive wrt SDP, sorry!)
>>>
>>> Do you really want to create a second "terminology world"? For people
>>> who don't know what SSRC means (because they don't know RTP) it may seem
>>> reasonable but to those who already know RTP you'd have to explain
>>> "yeah, rtpflowId is actually SSRC." So the term SSRC would have to be
>>> included in the spec anyway.
>>
>> You can leave mention of SSRC to a comment in the spec next to rtpflowId.
>>
>>> I'm not sure if having different names for the same thing would lead to
>>> less confusion.
>>
>> If SSRC is the name it's given in SDP and we want to get away from
>> SDP, this would be a first step, wouldn't it?
>
>
> SSRC is the name it's given in RTP, and we have (so far) had consensus on
> using RTP.

Ah ok, I thought it was a SDP parameter.
S.