Re: Teleco Integrators vs Web Developers vs Browser Implementers

On 3 Jul 2013, at 08:10, "Suhas Nandakumar (snandaku)" <snandaku@cisco.com> wrote:

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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jul 3, 2013, at 12:02 AM, "tim panton" <thp@westhawk.co.uk> wrote:
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>> On 3 Jul 2013, at 00:51, "Suhas Nandakumar (snandaku)" <snandaku@cisco.com> wrote:
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>> The W3C standard describes what the browser API looks like to the javascript developer. 
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>> It defines what the developer has to do to set up a peer-connection with a set of desired properties.
>> The way the javascript programmer determines what those desired properties are is up to her.
>> Likewise the way the desired properties are communicated from one end to the other(s) can be 
>> independent of the API.
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>> Those properties will be derived 5 places :
>> 1) from the local user's wishes, 
>> 2) from the capabilities of the local hardware,
>> 3) from the service's policies, 
>> 4) from the remote hardware capabilities,
>> 5) from the remote users wishes
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>> Our current API surface (SDP) is good at expressing 2) and 4) but weak at expressing the other sources, especially 3)
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>> Tim.
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> Hello Tim
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> I would be interested in learning about minimally extending existing API or constraints to solve the use cases that aren't covered by 1 and 3. Also 5 is can be covered within existing API and data model semantics
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I believed that a year ago. I'm less convinced now. 

> My 2 cents
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> Cheers
> Suhas

Received on Wednesday, 3 July 2013 07:49:04 UTC