RE: On babies and bathwater (was Re: [rtcweb] Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface) from Matthew Kaufman (SKYPE) on 2013-07-19 (public-webrtc@w3.org from July 2013)

From: Matthew Kaufman (SKYPE) <matthew.kaufman@skype.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:59:22 +0000
To: Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com>, Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com>
CC: Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>, Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca>, "<rtcweb@ietf.org>" <rtcweb@ietf.org>, "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
Message-ID: <AE1A6B5FD507DC4FB3C5166F3A05A48423717257@TK5EX14MBXC266.redmond.corp.microsoft.>

From: Adam Roach [mailto:adam@nostrum.com]:
>
> No, I think they're using an API that is nowhere near finished yet, which is
> necessarily going to be painful. The complaints are legitimate.
> 
> The scapegoating of SDP is what's misguided.

I could actually live with SDP, though it is pretty clunky. What I can't live with is having an offer/answer state machine in the browser. And I have enough experience with such things that I think there's a better word than "misguided" to describe my feelings.

Matthew Kaufman

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