Re: [rtcweb] Data transfer

Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saul@ag-projects.com> Fri, 16 September 2011 07:00 UTC

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Hi Olle,

On Sep 16, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:

> A comment on the list made me go back and re-read the charter. One thing I had missed is the data transfer part of rtcweb.
> 
> "The goal is to enable innovation on
>   top of a set of basic components.  One core component is to enable
>   real-time media like audio and video, a second is to enable data
>   transfer directly between clients."
> 
> Most of the discussions on the list has been about the media. What are the ideas for data transfer? Applications?
> 

Maybe I arrived a bit late to the party ;-) but so far I've seen discussions mainly around RTP (and related) media.

> To me, this seems like an interesting feature. If it's a plain data transfer session, a bidirectional session, it's a way to open a session from Javascript to any server, acting as an rtcweb client, which is different from the current sandbox model. I could have missed this discussion, but if not, I think this is an interesting topic to bring up.
> 
> Another note, which I think is purely a mistake, is to forget realtime text - T.140 and just state audio and video. The T.140 users are natural early adoptor users of rtcweb.
> 

I can think of another use case for "data transfer": MSRP. A browser looks looks like a good place for having IM sessions over MSRP. Supporting file transfers would also be awesome, and MSRP is just a TCP pipe where data flows, so maybe this "data transfer" layer is the right place to do this?


Regards,

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Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
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