Re: Mozilla/Cisco API Proposal - listening

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Cullen Jennings wrote:
> >
> > No streams can be added from the remote peer before the ICE agent 
> > runs, since the ICE agent is how the UA learns of the remote streams.
> 
> Just to ask a clarifying question here ... Ian, the model you are 
> thinking of seems to be that you learn about the remote streams over the 
> channel that the ICE is sets up. Some other people are thinking that you 
> learn about remote streams via the messages that are passed over the out 
> of band channel via the web servers. I can imagine either of theses 
> working just fine but I suspect some people are thinking different 
> things here. One of the pros of this I see is that it will probably be 
> much less latency than other approaches. I just wanted to confirm you 
> are thinking about it being learned over the ICE channel?

What do you mean by "the ICE channel" if it is distinct from the signaling 
channel? Or are you expecting scripts to parse the SDP blocks?

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