Interoperability Gist
The followings are form [here] Honoring key web tenets – The Web favors stateless interactions which do not saddle either party of a data exchange with the responsibility to remember what the other did or expects. Doing otherwise is a recipe for extreme brittleness in implementations; it also raises considerably the development cost which reduces the reach of the standard itself. Flexibility in its support of popular media formats and codecs as well as openness to future innovation– A successful standard cannot be tied to individual codecs, data formats or scenarios....