[khalilravanna]

I've been taking Financial Markets course by Robert Shiller and he continuously makes the point when talking about inventions and new ideas that "it's crazy to me that this didn't exist before". It's usually the sign of a really good invention when you have that thought. And that's the thought I'm having looking at this combining the codec and transport protocol together: "Why hasn't this been done before?" == "This is awesome!"

[ggambetta]

That's easy to say in hindsight, but it's easy to come up with all sorts of crazy ideas, ask yourself "why hasn't this been done before?", and then find out that the answer is "it has, it turned out to be a terrible idea, and that's why I've never heard of it".