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

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Mon, 08 July 2013 16:42 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 09:41:17 -0700
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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 9:32 AM, Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, this matches my understanding as well. However, I believe there was
>> also
>> general agreement that most things one would want to do should be
>> doable without modifying SDP.
>>
>
>
> "Should be doable" being the operative word. We are not there yet. We need
> both new API types (like capabilites) and more settings for existing API
> methods(more constraints).
>

Yes, I agree with that. What would be useful would be for people to
make a list of these use cases and the extensions which would
enable them.

-Ekr