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Re: [rtcweb] SDP Security Descriptions (RFC 4568) and RTCWeb

Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com> Sun, 28 April 2013 12:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] SDP Security Descriptions (RFC 4568) and RTCWeb
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On 27 Apr 2013, at 15:17, Christer Holmberg wrote:

> 
> Hi,
>  
> As I've mentioned before, we should really try to avoid solutions that require intermediaries to send reINVITEs - or, more general, send SDP offers.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Christer

If you stick to that rule, you'd want rid of ICE, SRTP, BUNDLE and all the other things an intermediary may have to add 
to a plain legacy device's offer in order for it to be acceptable to a browser. 
 
Or in other words: Why is the DTLS re-write especially irksome . ?

T.

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