Re: [rtcweb] CNAMEs and multiple peer connections

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 10 March 2014 15:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] CNAMEs and multiple peer connections
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On 10 March 2014 16:19, Magnus Westerlund
<magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com> wrote:
> Can you please think through the linkage issue a bit first before
> changing this property.

We already came to the conclusion that if media was being forwarded by
a peer, then that is new media originated by that peer, not the same
media.  Thus, if looping occurs, it is at the application layer.  We
definitely already agreed that RTP forwarding is not a function that a
browser will support.

Obviously, if we add that feature, CNAMEs will be just one of the
manifold issues that will arise and we will have to reconsider.
Compromising the privacy of users doesn't seem like a good trade-off
against some minor advantages in terms of loop detection (unlikely)
and synchronization (easy to apply manually).