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Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability - and... who are we designing RTCWEB for?

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Thu, 20 October 2011 14:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability - and... who are we designing RTCWEB for?
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2011/10/20 Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com>:
> I am not sure that he actually meant media over websocket, but single origin
> application and media (RTP media sent to the same IP as web app), might
> warrant relaxed security requirements. In particular, if RTC client is
> sending media to the same IP as a web server providing JavaScript, it can
> probably do so without ICE connectivity check without introducing any
> security issues. I am not sure how big of the use case this is going to be,
> but this can be attractive in some cases (use IP load balancer to send HTTP
> requests to one server and RTP port range to a gateway or SBC).

Yes, that's the WWW vision for any problem to solve:

HTTP/WebSocket protocol for all, port 80 and IP load balancers. There
si no more in WWW minds.

We can do it much better.

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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