Re: Teleco Integrators vs Web Developers vs Browser Implementers

On 2 July 2013 07:38, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:

> Conversely, even if we were to discard SDP entirely at the interface to
> WebRTC, we would still need to specify SDP representations of these
> concepts in order to allow sensible interop of these features with
> SDP-using
> systems on the other end. For instance, if WebRTC implementations are
> to use trickle ICE and get that when they interoperate with SIP systems,
> then trickle ICE needs to be added to SDP.
>


"want" not "need" :)

These features are highly desirable, but as long as an API is able to
disable those features, they can interoperate with SDP-using devices, just
not with those features.

Given that those features didn't appear until WebRTC arrived, maybe that's
a sign that it's OK (not great, just OK).