Re: [rtcweb] Review request for RTCWeb standard signaling protocol

[Neil Stratford <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Ravindran Parthasarathi <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> At this moment, I don't think that there is a need for developing new
> signaling protocol for RTCweb. IMO, The argument may be which is best
> suitable rather than none of the protocol is suitable.
>
In my view the only option for a standardised signalling protocol for RTCweb
*would* be something entirely new that met the specific needs of the
environment.

If we did go down the hypothetical new standard protocol route (which I
really think we shouldn't) my requirements would be:
- No server side infrastructure (SIP proxies etc) to maintain or configure.
- No special understanding in the server side web application beyond
discovering peer identities you might want to communicate with.

Which would lead to something looking like a browser maintained peer to peer
network, at which point we are re-inventing the web, which sounds like
something beyond this group. So I strongly support not picking a default and
instead encourage some innovation at the javascript level.

Neil