Re: [rtcweb] H.261 - taking a longer view of things

cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org> Mon, 25 November 2013 01:51 UTC

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On 24/11/2013 7:44 PM, Ron wrote:
> We're not defining a widget library, or toy scripting language here, 
> where it's ok to tell everybody their old stuff won't work anymore 
> next year and they'll need to completely rewrite it. We're proposing a 
> new internet standard. If people see that it has no enduring or 
> expected lifetime, they're just going to ignore it and we're 
> completely wasting our time.

i think you are being a bit over-dramatic. Say one day we discover that 
codec X is strictly-better than H.261 and decide to replace it. We would 
add X as MTI, alongside H.261 as part of WebRTC 2.0 and announce that 
H.261 is deprecated. Fast forward a few years, and WebRTC 3.0 is about 
to roll out. If we find that 95% [1] of users are using WebRTC 2.0 and 
higher then we can safely remove H.261 as MTI from version 3.0. I see no 
benefit in supporting deprecated features forever, nor do I see how 
removing them will cause WebRTC to fail.

Take a look at http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html 
... Will Android lose value if they drop support for version 2.2? I 
think not. It has 1.7% market share in spite of the fact it was released 
3.5 years ago.

Mobile platforms and auto-updating applications make it easier and 
easier to drop deprecated features.

[1] 95% is an arbitrary figure, you can use 99% if it makes you happier.

Gili