[RTW] New proposed charter text. Please review before the BoF.

[Magnus Westerlund]

Peter Musgrave skrev 2011-03-28 09:35:
> I agree multi-point with application level multicast scales badly but
> in a the cases where there are only 3 or 4 parties I think it can be
> an effective technique (and in those cases often simpler than try to
> insert an RTP mixer somewhere).

Yes, I agree that there are some potentials in this use case. So I am
not against it, but it is going to need some considerations.

> 
> However, if this is done at the application layer then as far as the
> protocol is concerned it is a collection of point-to-point
> connections and does not need specific protocol support.

Possibly, but there are RTP features that will work better if it
actually happens in a joint RTP session context.

Cheers

Magnus Westerlund

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