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

Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at> Thu, 04 July 2013 15:03 UTC

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Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:03:45 -0700
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface
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Matthew Kaufman

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On Jul 4, 2013, at 2:10 AM, Binod <binod.pg@oracle.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 04 July 2013 01:51 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
>> 2013/7/4 Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>:
>>> Looking back at your posts from back then, I see you did in fact suggest
>>> a set of API modifications that would have included an abstract session
>>> description. That would in fact have made Jingle somewhat (though not
>>> really that much) easier. So my last sentence here is unfair. My apologies.
>> Initially I though that SessionDescription was a powerful JS Object
>> with all the fields and attributes to construct a SDP, so a developer
>> could extract those media/transport fields and create a SDP via JS. At
>> the same time, the SessionDescription object would include helper
>> methods (defined by the WebRTC API) to build a plain SDP (i.e. toSDP)
>> and some others like XML-SDP (i.e. toXMLSDP).
> I like that approach. Have an API to specify all/most of what is
> in the SDP and then use a toSDP to generate actual SDP string to be sent
> across the wire.
> 
> Other side should be able to reconstruct the browser side
> object(s) using the received SDP string.
> 
> thanks,
> Binod.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> Iñaki Baz Castillo
>> <ibc@aliax.net>
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