Merge pull request #247 from youennf/expectedLatency-option

Adding new RTCConfiguration targetLatency parameter

Author: youennf

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       last packet belonging to this frame was received over the network.
     </p>
   </section>
+  <section id="target-latency">
+    <h2>
+      RTCConfiguration target latency extension
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      The {{RTCConfiguration}} dictionary is defined in [[WEBRTC]].
+      This document extends that dictionary with an additional parameter
+      to provide a hint on the latency targeted by the web application.
+    </p>
+    <pre class="idl">
+    enum RTCConfigurationTargetLatency {
+      "lowest",
+      "none"
+    };
+    partial dictionary RTCConfiguration {
+      RTCConfigurationTargetLatency targetLatency = "lowest";
+    };
+    </pre>
+    <section id="rtcconfiguration-target-latency-attribute">
+      <h3>
+        RTCConfiguration target latency extension
+      </h3>
+      <dl data-link-for="RTCConfiguration" data-dfn-for="RTCConfiguration" class="attributes">
+        <dt>
+          <dfn data-idl>targetLatency</dfn> of type <span class="idlMemberType">{{RTCConfigurationTargetLatency}}</span>
+        </dt>
+        <dd>
+          <p>The latency class targeted by the web application.</p>
+        </dd>
+      </dl>
+      <table data-link-for="RTCConfigurationTargetLatency" data-dfn-for="RTCConfigurationTargetLatency" class="simple">
+        <tbody>
+          <tr>
+            <th colspan="2">Enumeration description (non-normative)</th>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td><dfn data-idl>lowest</dfn></td>
+            <td>
+              <p>
+                The User Agent is expected to set up the network link to optimize the connection latency.
+                For that purpose, it SHOULD use techniques like network slicing as described in [[?etsi-ts-128-530]] if available.
+              </p>
+            </td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td><dfn data-idl>none</dfn></td>
+            <td>
+              <p>
+                The User Agent is expected to set up the network link without trying to optimize the connection latency.
+                It MAY instead try to optimize for some other purposes like power consumption.
+              </p>
+            </td>
+          </tr>
+        </tbody>
+      </table>
+    </section>
+  </section>
   <section class="informative" id="security-considerations">
     <h2>
       Security Considerations