Technical Summary
The Web Real Time Communications (WebRTC) family of protocols defines
mechanisms for direct interactive rich communication using audio,
video and data between two peers' web browsers. Within the WebRTC
framework, the Session Description protocol (SDP) is used for
negotiating session capabilities between the peers. Such a
negotiation happens based on the SDP Offer/Answer exchange mechanism
This document provides an informational reference in describing the
role of SDP and the Offer/Answer exchange mechanism for the most
common WebRTC use-cases.
Working Group Summary
The working group had consensus to publish as Informational.
Document Quality
This document represents a challenge to most reviewers both because of
its length and the nature of SDP’s long history of aggregating semantics
to a syntax originally designed for very different tasks. Magnus Westerlund,
Paul Kyzivat, Justin Uberti, Chris Flo, Flemming Andreasen, Christer
Holmberg, and Nils Ohlmeier provided valuable reviews.
Personnel
Ted Hardie is the Document Shepherd.
Adam Roach was the responsible Area Director through Last Call;
Murray Kucherawy now is the responsible Area Director.