Re: [rtcweb] Resolving RTP/SDES question in Paris

[Roman Shpount <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>wrote:

> **
> It seems to me that you are arguing that the scenarios in section 4.1 of
> the use cases document do not cover that specific case, and I think you are
> right in that; the list is:
>
>    The following considerations are applicable to all use cases:
>    o  Clients can be on IPv4-only
>    o  Clients can be on IPv6-only
>    o  Clients can be on dual-stack
>    o  Clients can be on wideband (10s of Mbits/sec)
>    o  Clients can be on narrowband (10s to 100s of Kbits/sec)
>    o  Clients can be on variable-media-quality networks (wireless)
>    o  Clients can be on congested networks
>    o  Clients can be on firewalled networks with no UDP allowed
>    o  Clients can be on networks with cone NAT
>    o  Clients can be on networks with symmetric NAT
>
> Now, there are two ways to interpret this omission:
>
> - The WG did not think of that use case when the list was created
> - The WG does not want that use case on the list because it constrains the
> solution space too much
>
> If (re)opening this issue, I think I'd find myself in the "do not want
> that use case" camp.
>
>
I do not recall this use case ever being discussed on the working group, so
I would assume the current situation is due to WG not thinking about this
case when the list was created.
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Roman Shpount