Re: [rtcweb] Open data channel issues

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 03 March 2014 17:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Open data channel issues
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On 3 March 2014 07:26, Randell Jesup <randell-ietf@jesup.org> wrote:
> I don't understand the "behind a flag" comment; an app using DataChannels
> for anything variable-length (unless with low bounds) must care until all
> old implementations are gone.

My point was that these people who you want to protect have already
renounced rights to protection by using the prefixed API.  Don't use
that as a basis for argument.  We should concentrate on building the
functionality we want to have.