Announcing intent to request CR transition for webrtc-pc, and to gather implementation experience regarding issue 1283

After all recent discussion regarding Issue 1283 [1] on how to transmit 
video in cases when there is a dimension mismatch between the sourcing 
track and what can be sent we have concluded that the group may not be 
ready to make a decision yet, but that more implementation (and use) 
experience is needed. We therefore plan to remove the "Resolve before 
CR" label from Issue 1283 and request transition to CR, because, after 
all, 'to gather implementation experience' is one of the reasons why W3C 
publishes a Candidate Recommendation [2].

Let us know before the end of this week (i.e. by end of October 21st) if 
you object to this. We plan to request the transition early next week if 
we don't receive objection.

Also note that in parallel discussions are ongoing, and if those are 
successful, we can merge changes into the document going forward.

To give a bit more background: webrtc-pc [3] currently specifies (but is 
unclear on certain details) one way (which was agreed on during the 2016 
Lisbon TPAC meeting), while JSEP specifies [4] another way, to cope with 
video dimension mismatch. At the October 12th webrtc WG meeting [5] it 
was proposed to allow the application to select between multiple 
behaviors, but it has been questioned whether the gain from that 
motivates the added complexity. To our understanding the question is 
mostly relevant when interoperating with non browser endpoints (since 
JSEP rules for imageattr creation [6] gives one min and one max value 
for width and height, and that implementations SHOULD allow reception of 
arbitrarily small resolutions).

Stefan for the chairs

[1] https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-pc/issues/1283
[2] https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#maturity-levels
[3] https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc/#rtp-media-api
[4] https://rtcweb-wg.github.io/jsep/#rfc.section.3.6.2
[5] https://www.w3.org/2011/04/webrtc/wiki/October_12_2017
[6] https://rtcweb-wg.github.io/jsep/#rfc.section.3.6.1

Received on Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:04:02 UTC