[hydra-dev] White paper addressing Service Discovery for Hydra

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Nick Lewis wrote:
> I assume that conference bridge variants would be supported in all
> native resolutions. Selection of which conference bridge variant to use
> in a particular application may present some design issues. For example
> what happens if two wideband phones join a conference in which there are
> three existing narrowband phones. Is the conference moved from a
> narrowband conference resource to wideband conference resource? Can this
> be done without interruption? Maybe this could be one of the usecases to
> validate the system design.
> 
> I would hope that 96KHz/24bit would be supported in a new product as HD
> audio is already very popular (and there are apparently implementations
> of 192KHz/32bit audio). There should at least be no design decisions
> that obstructed its implementation later on.

Indeed; I wouldn't expect any decisions that affected what audio formats
are possible to be made at all. The mechanisms for describing, offering,
and selecting audio (and video, text, etc.) formats should be
format-agnostic to the greatest extent possible.

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