Re: FW: [Bug 20810] SDP inadequately defined

On 29/10/14 23:33, Matthew Kaufman (SKYPE) wrote:
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> Matthew Kaufman
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>> -----Original Message----- From: Harald Alvestrand
>> [mailto:harald@alvestrand.no] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:35
>> PM To: public-webrtc@w3.org Subject: Re: FW: [Bug 20810] SDP
>> inadequately defined
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>> But the WEBRTC (W3C) bugtracker is about tracking issues that can
>> be solved by *modifying W3C specifications*. There is nothing here
>> that can be fixed by modifying a W3C specification.
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> Sure it can. The W3C specification could specifically call out the
> existing specs explicitly in such a way that one would know what to
> implement.
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> The W3C specification could more explicitly define the specific SDP
> that is to be generated and understood.
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> The W3C specification could *not use SDP as an API* and then this
> problem goes away entirely.

Is that really the case? In the W3C document, as far as I can see, the 
actual SDP (or RTCSessionDescription) is never dealt with in any other 
way than applying to the PeerConnection or sending off to a remote peer.