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Re: [rtcweb] On babies and bathwater (was Re: Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface)

"Matthew Kaufman (SKYPE)" <matthew.kaufman@skype.net> Fri, 19 July 2013 18:59 UTC

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From: "Matthew Kaufman (SKYPE)" <matthew.kaufman@skype.net>
To: Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com>, Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com>
Thread-Topic: On babies and bathwater (was Re: [rtcweb] Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface)
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] On babies and bathwater (was Re: Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface)
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From: Adam Roach [mailto:adam@nostrum.com]:
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> No, I think they're using an API that is nowhere near finished yet, which is
> necessarily going to be painful. The complaints are legitimate.
> 
> The scapegoating of SDP is what's misguided.

I could actually live with SDP, though it is pretty clunky. What I can't live with is having an offer/answer state machine in the browser. And I have enough experience with such things that I think there's a better word than "misguided" to describe my feelings.

Matthew Kaufman

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