Re: [Bug 23832] New: Requiring that negotiated channels be created on the receiver before any data can be received is problematic for some use cases from Harald Alvestrand on 2013-11-18 (public-webrtc@w3.org from November 2013)

From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:59:18 +0100
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
CC: "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
Message-ID: <528A7FA6.6030209@alvestrand.no>

On 11/18/2013 09:39 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 18 November 2013 12:15, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
>> Why not just fire an error when data (not an open message) arrives on a
>> stream ID that doesn't correspond to an existing channel?
>
> I'm ok with that, as long as the necessary information is exposed and
> that the data that arrives is not discarded.
>
The reliable information seems to be the channel number (stream ID).

The part I don't understand: If you want this mode of open to be
reliable, why isn't it acceptable to send an open message?

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