Re: [rtcweb] My Opinion: Why I think a negotiating protocol is a Good Thing

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Hi,

Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
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>How many RTP libraries do you know of that use SDP offer/answer protocol as
>their API?
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This confuses me too in the direction where the RTC-Web work seems to be heading. There are countless SIP user agents and XMPP clients that implement SDP offer/answer or the Jingle equivalent. But I've not  heard SDP used as an *API* towards the RTP/media libraries. So, when I think about the RTP/media API that the browser should expose to the Javascript app, I'm surprised to see SDP on that level.

I see that it may be useful to have a higher level API that provides ICE and SDP offer/answer type of functions to developers who want that. But I'm not sure if that should be a real W3C standard API or could it just be Javascript libraries. 

Having said that, I'm not going to write a "signaling" or API draft. I can live with any outcome that does not limit app developers too much. So for me at this point it would be valuable input to understand what we are *loosing* if the API were based on SDP and we would have something like ROAP. I've heard it "limits innovation" but I haven't seen concrete examples of that. So if Hadriel is going to produce a draft on these issues, it would be great if it had something like that.  

Markus