Re: [MBONED] [blink-dev] Intent to Prototype: Multicast Receive API

Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com> Wed, 23 February 2022 18:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [MBONED] [blink-dev] Intent to Prototype: Multicast Receive API
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> On Feb 24, 2022, at 6:58 AM, Holland, Jake <jholland=40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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> Hi Gyan,
>  
> > Have you looked at WebRTC.  
>  
> As I understand it (not very deeply), WebRTC does not support multicast since it requires the use of SRTP.

SRTP can be used on multicast streams.  The reason why WebRTC does not support multicast is simply because it was defined (standardized) for unicast streams only - not for any reason having to do with SRTP.

Ross Finlayson
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