One evening last week, I was nerd-sniped by a question Max Ogden asked: That is quite an interesting question. I somewhat dislike using Session Description Protocol (SDP) in the signaling protocol anyway and prefer nice JSON objects for the API and ugly XML blobs on the wire to the ugly SDP blobs used by […]
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SDP: The worst of all worlds or why compromise can be a bad idea (Tim Panton)
As WebRTC implementations and field trials evolve, field experience is telling us there are still a number of open issues to make this technology deployable in the real world and the fact that we would probably do some things differently if we started all over again. As an example, see the recent W3C discussion What […]
Anatomy of a WebRTC SDP (Antón Román)
Editor note: see the updated version of this post here. As described in previous posts, WebRTC does not specify a particular signalling model other than the generic need to exchange Session Description Protocol (SDP) media descriptions in the offer/answer fashion. During the last few months, my friend Antón Román (CTO of Quobis) and I spent a lot […]
Updated: Why the WebRTC API has it wrong – Interview with WebRTC Object API (ORTC) co-author Iñaki Baz
Updated 25 Aug 2013 – some minor edits fixing some ORTC API references and added ORTC sample code. In my post on WebRTC standardization I mentioned that one of the controversial points of discussion in the W3C context was whether the SDP Offer/Answer model and the current API provided the level of flexibility a wide range of […]