Re: [rtcweb] We are moving beyond the assumptions on which O/A is based

[Emil Ivov <[e-mail]>]

On 11.05.13, 19:51, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
> I don't have a specific action to recommend here. This just seems like a 
> somewhat fundamental shift that out to be recognized. It probably isn't 
> just RTCWEB and CLUE, it is really related to more complex communication 
> scenarios. ISTM that CLUE is addressing this by building a layer on top 
> of O/A, while RTCWEB is *battling* with O/A.

That's a nice way to put it. Interestingly the CLUE approach to take
this out of O/A seems to be more in line with the RTCWEB paradigm than
both Plan A or Plan B.

The decision not to implement an official signalling RTCWEB protocol was
taken very early in this working group and there was very strong
consensus on the fact that imposing a specific signalling protocol would
be incompatible with the web in general.

Still, it seems to me that we are now trying to compensate for the  lack
of such a signalling protocol by piggybacking on top of O/A and SDP with
things such as the possibility to turn off individual SSRCs.

Why do we need these things? Aren't they better handled by the API?

Emil

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