Re: [rtcweb] Let's define the purpose of WebRTC

[Randell Jesup <[e-mail]>]

On 11/7/2011 7:39 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 04:14 AM, Randell Jesup wrote:
> ....
>
>> And glare:
>> Cullen's classic example of glare is two people talking, browser to
>> browser, and one saying "lets add video", and both turning it on. No
>> interop or SIP required for that to cause glare.

> I would say, if we could completely forget legacy we could also forget
> glare. We could have one offer/answer to open a connection (using ICE).
> Setting up the RTP-streams could then be separate for each end: the A
> side initiaes offer/answer to set up the streams flowing A->B and B does
> the corresponding for streams B->A, and these o/a dialogues could be
> separated. (In essence each side set's up what is in its localStreams
> array independently.) Then there would be no glare. (Not that I'm
> arguing for it)

Even two one-way channels could have glare between an IP change at one 
end (or change in what resources it has to receive codecs, or window 
size it's displayed, etc), and the sender wanting to change something 
(even simply to go inactive/MUTE).


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Randell Jesup
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