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

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Wed, 03 July 2013 22:21 UTC

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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 Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
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>>> So compatibility with SIP is important but compatibility with Jingle is
>>> just impossible. And this is supposed to be the API proposed to W3C...
>>>
>> Who said anything about impossible? It's a mechanical transformation
>> (see: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0167.html).
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>> Anyway, it's not like this feature is a surprise to anyone--well at
>> least anyone who was paying attention--it's been a feature of the
>> specification since before the WG was even formed. As I said
>> earlier, it was in the original WHATWG spec that Ian Hickson
>> wrote.
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>  There are lots of application developers who weren't around back then,
> so it's not reasonable to expect them to have been paying attention back
> then.  Many are very new to this, and there are lots of surprises for them.
>

The person I was responding to has posts on this mailing list going back as
far as September 2011.

-Ekr