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Wordsmithing of privacy considerations
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aboba committed Nov 15, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -907,14 +907,15 @@ <h2>Privacy Considerations</h2>
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<h2>Persistent information</h2>
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In this specification, encoder use of scalable coding tools is not negotiated
between peers, so that it is not exposed during SDP negotiation. Since support
for scalable video coding is rare in hardware encoders, knowledge of the
In WebRTC, the use of scalable coding tools is not negotiated between
peers, and therefore support for SVC is not negotiated in SDP. Currently,
hardware encoders rarely support {{RTCRtpEncodingParameters/scalabilityMode}}
values beyond two and three layer temporal scalability, so that support for
other {{RTCRtpEncodingParameters/scalabilityMode}} values needs to be provided
in software. As a result, knowledge of the
{{RTCRtpEncodingParameters/scalabilityMode}} values supported by the
{{RTCRtpSender}} is typically not dependent on the underlying hardware, but
is determined by support in the browser's software encoder. As a result,
knowledge of the supported {{RTCRtpEncodingParameters/scalabilityMode}} values
can permit differentiation between browsers. This additional fingerprint
{{RTCRtpSender}} provides little information about the underlying hardware,
but can permit differentiation between browsers. This additional fingerprint
surface is expected to decrease as this specification is more widely implemented.
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