Re: On babies and bathwater (was Re: [rtcweb] Summary of Application Developers' opinions of the current WebRTC API and SDP as a control surface)

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>wrote:

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> Negotiation is a hole.  A vast, soul-sucking, waste of time.
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Even if you have the same javascript application downloaded, you will have
disparate capabilities in the environments into which it is downloaded
(browser/os/codecs/media sources/available network capacity).  Getting set
intersection and preference order for those capabilities is something that
applications actually want.  You may be able to move the pain of that
around, but it isn't a waste of time.

My personal opinion, with no IETF hats or company swag,

Ted