Re: [rtcweb] Translating Plan A into No Plan (Was: No Plan)

Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> Mon, 03 June 2013 21:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Translating Plan A into No Plan (Was: No Plan)
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I don't understand why we would be talking about translating from one of 
these plans to another. AFAIK they are *alternatives*, and that we will 
at some point agree on one, and that will be the only one implemented.

	Thanks,
	Paul

On 6/3/13 1:28 PM, Emil Ivov wrote:
> Hey Cullen, Paul, all
>
> On 31.05.13, 22:19, Cullen Jennings (fluffy) wrote:
>> On 31.05.2013, at 12:23 PM, Emil Ivov <emcho@jitsi.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Certainly. Could you please post the SDP that you would like to see
>>> translated in a way that's compatible with "No Plan"?
>>>
>>> Emil
>>
>> We can start with the SDP in plan A
>
> The example in "7.3. Many Videos" looks like a good start:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-roach-rtcweb-plan-a-00#section-7.3
>
> Here it is:
>
>     v=0
>     o=- 20518 0 IN IP4 198.51.100.1
>     s=
>     t=0 0
>     c=IN IP4 203.0.113.1
>     a=ice-ufrag:F7gI
>     a=ice-pwd:x9cml/YzichV2+XlhiMu8g
>     a=fingerprint:sha-1 42:89:c5:c6:55:9d:39:f9:b6:eb:e7
>     a=group:BUNDLE m0 m1 m2 m3
>
>     m=audio 56600 RTP/SAVPF 0 96
>     a=mid:m0
>     a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
>     a=rtpmap:96 opus/48000
>     a=ptime:20
>     a=sendrecv
>     a=rtcp-mux
>     [ICE Candidates]
>
>     m=video 0 RTP/SAVPF 97 98
>     a=mid:m1
>     a=rtpmap:97 H264/90000
>     a=fmtp:97 profile-level-id=4d0028;packetization-mode=1
>     a=rtpmap:98 VP8/90000
>     a=sendrecv
>     a=rtcp-mux
>     a=bundle-only
>     a=ssrc:11111 cname:45:5f:fe:cb:81:e9
>
>     m=video 0 RTP/SAVPF 97 98
>     a=mid:m2
>     a=rtpmap:97 H264/90000
>     a=fmtp:97 profile-level-id=4d0028;packetization-mode=1
>     a=rtpmap:98 VP8/90000
>     a=sendrecv
>     a=rtcp-mux
>     a=bundle-only
>     a=ssrc:22222 cname:45:5f:fe:cb:81:e9
>
>     m=video 0 RTP/SAVPF 97 98
>     a=mid:m3
>     a=rtpmap:97 H264/90000
>     a=fmtp:97 profile-level-id=4d0028;packetization-mode=1
>     a=rtpmap:98 VP8/90000
>     a=sendrecv
>     a=rtcp-mux
>     a=bundle-only
>     a=ssrc:333333 cname:45:5f:fe:cb:81:e9
>
>
> An offer generated by a "No Plan" browser in this case would look
> something like this:
>
>     v=0
>     o=- 20518 0 IN IP4 198.51.100.1
>     s=
>     t=0 0
>     c=IN IP4 203.0.113.1
>     a=ice-ufrag:F7gI
>     a=ice-pwd:x9cml/YzichV2+XlhiMu8g
>     a=fingerprint:sha-1 42:89:c5:c6:55:9d:39:f9:b6:eb:e7
>     a=group:BUNDLE m0 m1
>
>     m=audio 56600 RTP/SAVPF 96 0
>     a=mid:m0
>     a=rtpmap:96 opus/48000
>     a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
>     a=ptime:20
>     a=sendrecv
>     a=rtcp-mux
>     [ICE candidates]
>
>     m=video 56602 RTP/SAVPF 97 98
>     a=mid:m1
>     a=rtpmap:97 H264/90000
>     a=fmtp:97 profile-level-id=4d0028;packetization-mode=1
>     a=rtpmap:98 VP8/90000
>     a=sendrecv
>     a=rtcp-mux
>     [ICE candidates]
>
> I. Talking to legacy
>
> In case you need to talk to an actual legacy (as in widely deployed SIP)
> endpoint, the above would translate into a regular two-stream call. Both
> Plan A and No Plan would lead to essentially the same result (if we
> accept that older endpoints won't throw an exception at the sight of 4
> m= lines) so not much to discuss here.
>
> II. Talking to Plan A style endpoints
>
> If you need to talk to a Plan A endpoint you basically have the
> following options:
>
> 1. You use JavaScript to prettify the "No Plan" SDP and turn it into
> something that looks like "Plan A". Not my favourite option, but I am
> sure some would like to use it. Maybe vendors of Plan A equipment would
> even distribute JS libs that do this. It would basically all come down
> to generating one ssrc attribute and two additional m=lines and
> appending this to the existing SDP string.
>
> 2. The application retrieves SSRCs from the browser, adds additional
> application-specific signalling to it and then sends the whole thing to
> a signalling gateway. The gateway (which you would also have with Plan
> A) would convert the SDP into what it needs it to be.
>
> The application specific signalling can look like this:
>
> {
>      "firstStream":
>      {
>          "SSRC": "11111",
>          "CNAME": "45:5f:fe:cb:81:e9"
>      },
>      "secondStream":
>      {
>          "SSRC": "22222",
>          "CNAME": "45:5f:fe:cb:81:e9"
>      },
>      "thirdStream":
>      {
>          "SSRC": "333333",
>          "CNAME": "45:5f:fe:cb:81:e9"
>      },
> }
>
> 3. In Plan B, section 3.1 talks about generating "Plan A" style SDP with
> the help of .content properties. If browser vendors are willing to
> implement support for this then I suppose it would be a third option.
>
> III. Talking to other WebRTC applications
>
> This is the fun case and the one we should be most concerned with. Let's
> imagine that the answerer needs to add a fourth video stream. To make
> this work endpoints would need to do the following:
>
> a) with Plan A and draft-roach-rtcweb-glareless-add:
>     - send application specific signalling to the offerer
>     - have a new O/A exchange
>
> b) with Plan A:
>     - have a new O/A exchange
>     - potentially risk glare with some impact on user experience
>
> c) with No Plan:
>     ... nothing
>
> I am intentionally not going into how all plans would require additional
> metadata that would place SSRC 1 left and 2 right as I don't think this
> conveys any meaningful differences.
>
> Comments on the above are welcome. We could also move to another
> scenario from the Plan A draft, if you believe that 7.3 is not
> representative enough.
>
> Emil
>
>