Re: [rtcweb] SDP Offer/Answer draft-jennings-rtcweb-signaling - Scope

Cullen Jennings <fluffy@cisco.com> Thu, 20 October 2011 02:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] SDP Offer/Answer draft-jennings-rtcweb-signaling - Scope
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On Oct 19, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:

>> 
>> This whole "is this an API or Protocol discussion" leaves me sort of saying
>> "Yes" but I'm not sure it matters much. Any API can be turned into a protocol
>> using a RPC approach. 
> 
> I disagree here.
> 
> http://labs.oracle.com/techrep/1994/abstract-29.html

Good point and nice paper. Perhaps I should have said an API can be turned into a really bad protocol using an RPC approach :-)