Re: [rtcweb] Requiring ICE for RTC calls

[Roman Shpount <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Cullen Jennings <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I agree with you point that the majority of deployed phones don't support
> ICE. But so what, what do you propose to do. One thing that is not going to
> happen is browser vendors do something which makes browsers such a security
> threat that the browsers are banned from every corporate network. Solutions
> like CORS solve the problem but short of something like that, I don't see
> browser vendors deciding that remove same origin policy is a good idea.
>
>
As I wrote before, you can use RTC not only in the desktop browser but also
in the desktop phone. It is not unreasonable to use the same CPU platform
being used in mobile phones and build a desk IP phone which primarily runs
the web browser to control its screen and uses RTC to setup voice/video
calls. This phone can be a much better and more extendable standard platform
for building UC solutions then most of the current SIP phones. The problem
is if standard requires ICE/SRTP this phone will not be able to work with
most of the current enterprise phones. Once again, since this can be
considered a marginal use case, we don't need to cover it in the standard
and the phone vendor can just ignore that ICE requirement since it knows
that the phone is located in the fully controlled network.
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Roman Shpount