Re: [rtcweb] On babies and bathwater (was Re: Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface)

Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com> Sat, 20 July 2013 01:02 UTC

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From: Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:01:24 -0700
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] On babies and bathwater (was Re: Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface)
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca> wrote:

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> On Jul 19, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Matthew Kaufman (SKYPE) <
> matthew.kaufman@skype.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Martin Thomson [mailto:martin.thomson@gmail.com]
> >>
> >> Negotiation is a hole.  A vast, soul-sucking, waste of time.
> >
> > And negotiation over SDP requires a trip to MMUSIC every time you think
> of something new, too. That's a soul-sucking waste of time *itself*.
> >
> > Matthew Kaufman
>
> Better than a trip to W3C, IETF, and XSF
>

That's definitely a matter of opinion.


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