Re: [rtcweb] Why are we asking the wrong questions?

Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com> Thu, 20 October 2011 20:47 UTC

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From: Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com>
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:

> Hi Roman, could you please check this short document and specify which
> "signaling protocol" (of the three appearing in the document) you
> mean?:
>
>  http://dev.sipdoc.net/projects/oversip/wiki/RTCweb_Signaling_Components
>
> This document is under password protection and I cannot access it.

P.S. I suggest to stop redefine standard terms for the sake of the working
group. Signaling protocol is defined in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_protocol and is something like SIP --
definition of data interactions over a wire. A set of JavaScript methods is
not a signaling protocol -- it is an API. State machine that describes these
JavaScript methods is still part of the API specification. In my personal
opinion, there are should be no "signaling protocols" in RTC. Trying to say
that JavaScript definitions is some type protocol is just trying to discuss
something which out of scope of this group and belongs to W3C.
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Roman Shpount