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

Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com> Mon, 08 July 2013 15:22 UTC

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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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On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK <
stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com> wrote:

> > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK
> > <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com
> > <mailto:stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 7/3/13 11:37 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> >      >     I'm glad to be wrong here.  Is the phrase "you shouldn't have
> to
> >      >     modify the SDP but rather there should be API points to cover
> >     most
> >      >     of the use cases"  the consensus of the working group?
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > I thought it was, but I'm not the chair, so maybe you could ask
> >     Harald or
> >      > Stefan.
> >
> >     I definitely think this is the consensus of the working group.
> >
> >
> > Can you point out when exactly this consensus was reached? This is news
> > to me, but I definitely could have missed something.
>
> No I can't really. To be clear, no consensus call (or similar) has been
> held. But every time this is discussed, what I hear is people agreeing
> and no objections. It was discussed a bit, e.g., at the f2f at TPAC last
> year, if you read the minutes [1] you will find some traces of that
> discussion.
>

> And, I don't understand why there would be a debate about this. There
> are obviously many who want to define APIs (or constraints) that allow
> most use-cases to be met without having to modify the SDP. Why would
> anyone have anything against that? If there is anyone who really wants
> to modify the SDP instead (I have no clue why, but anyway) they can
> still do that.
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webrtc/2012Nov/0072.html
>
>
I would not disagree that there should not be any debate that things that
can be done through API should be done through API. My question is, was
there ever consensus that SDP should be a opaque non modifiable blob which
should not be used within the application to control things. Or is SDP just
a more advanced API surface that is supposed to be used to implement more
advanced scenarios? Is this group even suppose to specify what can be
modified in by the application SDP or is it supposed to be an empty set?
So, was there ever a consensus that "developers MUST NOT touch SDP"?

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Roman Shpount