[webrtc-extensions] Header extension negotiation: Allow adding needed ones after initial O/A? (#248)

alvestrand has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-extensions:

== Header extension negotiation: Allow adding needed ones after initial O/A? ==
It turns out that JSEP says that we shouldn't add header extensions in subsequent offers. Nevertheless, Chrome has allowed that.
Now we removed that function through implementing the "remember what you negotiated" extension, and of course an use case has shown up.

The use case is this:

Initial offer: video, with all the extensions including RID
Initial answer: video, extension not containing RID
Second offer: new video section, extensions copied from last negotiation, simulcast turned on.
Result: Rejection - simulcast is not supported without the RID extension.

We know (because this worked earlier) that if the RID extension is sent together with the additional section, O/A will work - we will get an answer with RID in the header extension list.

The alternatives I see here are:
- Don't support this use case
- Add a sentence saying something like "when there exists a sender configuration with simulcast enabled, set HeaderExtensionsToNegotiate[rid] to "sendrecv" for that section"
- Something else?






Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-extensions/issues/248 using your GitHub account


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