Re: [rtcweb] Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface

Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan@oracle.com> Tue, 23 July 2013 19:37 UTC

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On Jul 20, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:

> 2013/7/20 Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca>:
>> I will note that over half of that very small sample set is folks that have been long termed involved in SIP and VoIP so, uh, might not be a representative sample of type of people you are portraying it as.
> 
> It is even worse if people interested and expert in SIP tells you that
> the current SDP-blob-based API is really wrong for using SIP in
> WebRTC, don't you think?

No, not at all - we're all jaded from past experience and we know how bad it is already, so Cullen's right we're all tainted.  Hopefully if we ask new people, they won't know the truth and give us much more positive results instead.  Or new people might even see the SDP-based "API" and think: "Oh cool, the API is a string blob of stuff in some archaic inconsistent syntax format with hidden state-based dependencies and rules... awesome!  I always wanted to party like it's 1999, and here's my chance!"

-hadriel