Re: [rtcweb] RTCWEB needs an Internet Codec

Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com> Fri, 31 August 2012 19:43 UTC

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On 31 Aug 2012, at 10:25, Mandyam, Giridhar wrote:

> In addition, I don't view all use cases as being of equal importance (at least with initial implementations).  Conversational voice over cellular must work for WebRTC. 
All use cases are equal, but some are more equal than others ?

I think it is a _huge_ mistake to assume we know what will be important use cases for webRTC. 
The use case you cite is _very_ well served by adding a tel: url to a mobile web page and placing a 2g gsm call.

Tim.