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One of the working group members did an in depth look at the proposal that I thought was fairly even-handed: http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2012/08/initial_no
by magicalist 14y ago
One of the working group members did an in depth look at the proposal that I thought was fairly even-handed: http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2012/08/initial_notes_on_microsofts_cu.html http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2012/08/initial_notes_on_mi...
> WebRTC itself is so young that a complete rewrite shouldn't be out of consideration if needed. Nobody wants to carry bad decisions over the years anymore.
That's partly true, but also one of the traps of discussing these things outside of the working groups in which they originate. You get new eyes on proposals, from people not caught up in the baggage of past discussions and maybe not as tired of discussing this topic ad nauseam so aren't as ready to settle for the first thing that comes along, but you also lose all the context of ongoing discussions and proposals.
And, of course, you can always rewrite to try to get the perfect spec, but at some point the rest of the world has settled on the thing that was only meant to be a temporary solution, and it's now so entrenched that it's not going anywhere. The real danger looming over any standards body is the perfect (or as he really said, le mieux -- just "the better") as the enemy of the good enough.