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Re: [rtcweb] Use of offer / answer semantics

Colin Perkins <csp@csperkins.org> Tue, 06 September 2011 16:06 UTC

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On 6 Sep 2011, at 16:49, Emil Ivov wrote:
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>> 3) When a new codec is specified, and the SPD for the new codec is
>> specified in the MMUSIC WG, no other standardization would should be
>> required for it to be possible to use that in the web browsers.
> 
> I was about to suggest we should also mention the result from the
> PAYLOAD WG here (rather than MMUSIC only) but I believe that's actually
> what Colin meant.


The standards are done in PAYLOAD (was AVT before the split), not MMUSIC, true. My main point though was that the codec names and parameters aren't defined in terms of SDP, but rather using MIME media type names and parameters, which happen to currently get mapped to SDP. 

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Colin Perkins
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