Re: [rtcweb] Call for Consensus Regarding Selecting Recommended Audio Codecs

[Adam Roach <[e-mail]>]

On 12/27/12 11:05, Steve Sokol wrote:
> I don't see unmediated legacy interoperability as likely to happen

Ugh. I hate repeating this, but there is a radical difference between 
dealing with computationally cheap things like bundling, ICE, SCTP and 
even (from a relative perspective) encryption and dealing with 
re-encoding media.

Transcoding perceptibly increases end-to-end latency. Transcoding 
perceptibly degrades the final audio stream. All other gatewaying 
functions can be done cheaply enough that the user cannot tell a difference.

Which is why I think there is *utility* to listing commonly used codecs 
and explaining where/how they are used. I really do want to see this as 
part of a guidance section for implementors.

However, I don't think any of those reasons rise to the level of an RFC 
2119 "SHOULD" level statement.

/a