What does 'sdparta' stand for in a Firefox webRTC session description?

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When generating offer and answer objects during webRTC signaling in Firefox, Mozilla added a pun about Session Description Protocols by returning answers and offers that say "THIS_IS_SDPARTA."

Below are two SDPs. One was made in Chrome and the other in Firefox, each using the same web app, STUN server, and signaling server.

I can not find any use of 'ARTA' as an acronym that has any relationship to SDP or webRTC. As a word, 'Arta' could be a person's name, or a place in Greece, Djibouti, or Albania. I cannot find any correlation between ancient Sparta and Arta aside from both being Greek. Wikipedia's disambiguation page on 'Arta.'

Searching stack overflow for 'this_is_sdparta' or 'sdparta' returns code snippets of users troubleshooting their SDPs and signaling, nobody has asked a question with sdparta in their title SO search for 'sdparta', nor have any answers directly discussed 'sdparta' or 'this_is_sdparta' that I could find.