Re: [rtcweb] The MTI Codec Questions (what to ask and how to ask them)

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Ron <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 09:14:27PM -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:39 PM, tim panton <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Agreed, the worst aspect of any adoption of H264 is that it makes it
> > > significantly more difficult to
> > > produce a custom ’secure’ build of firefox that has been independently
> > > reviewed for special use-cases
> > > (press, humanitarian workers etc).
> >
> > Why is this true? We currently build OpenH264 and then send the binary to
> > Cisco but keep a hash for comparison. Why is it more difficult to review
> > this?
>
> Is Cisco offering to ship such binaries for anyone who wants to build
> them


I think Mo has answered this.

, or is this a special privilege they offered to you to win your
> support for their scheme?


It certainly wasn't this. When we agreed to do this, the intent was to do
reproducible builds, but then as we got closer to ship engineering
realities intervened and it became clear that it was easier for Mozilla
to do the builds in the interim, but that decision was only made
recently and we would prefer to have reproducible builds, as Mo
says..

-Ekr