Re: Off-topic: making WebRTC work in practice (Re: a brief pondering)

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

Den 06.04.2020 01:20, skrev Keith Moore:
> On 4/5/20 7:14 PM, Larry Masinter wrote:
> 
>> There should be no benefit to native app except for vendor lock-in.
> 
> Well, don't discount vendor lock-in.   But of course if the app can
> communicate directly between peers, whereas the browser cannot, that
> consumes fewer resources than routing the traffic through the vendor's
> servers, and likely provides better service to users also.   An app is
> also better positioned to act as spyware.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
WebRTC was designed to allow communication directly between peers.
Much of the complexity in the stack (which RIPT is trying to get rid of)
comes precisely from the decision to make it peer to peer.

Nobody's come up with a popular way to do session establishment without
a server of some kind yet, though. (Some have tried.)