Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability - and... who are we designing RTCWEB for?
Randell Jesup <randell-ietf@jesup.org> Fri, 21 October 2011 18:33 UTC
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability - and... who are we designing RTCWEB for?
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On 10/21/2011 8:25 AM, Wolfgang Beck wrote: > At the layer of call signaling messages are ultimately exchanged > between two JS clients running on browsers. If we have different JS > clients here, we need a standardized protocol between them. With > trapezoid interconnection, we can hide this to some extent by doing > protocol translations between JS client A / RTCWEB Server A and Server > B / JS client B. Some > information will get lost in translation. > > But as browsers can load JS on the fly, user A could simply point her > browser to Server B and use the same client as user B. Now all > components at the signaling layer are provided by a single vendor and > no standardized protocol is required. There is no loss of information > as there are no protocol translators. This is the rough equivalent to saying "instead of exchanging email in a standard format, and letting people use whatever client/webmail-client they want to read it; if you want to read an email from a gmail user you should log into gmail using their interface; from an aol user log into AOL and their interface, etc. Oh, and history, phonebooks, etc would all be separate." Yes, it avoids standard 'federation' formats and conversions, but... -- Randell Jesup randell-ietf@jesup.org
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- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Cullen Jennings
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- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Iñaki Baz Castillo
- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Bernard Aboba
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- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Ravindran Parthasarathi
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- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Wolfgang Beck
- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Iñaki Baz Castillo
- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Randell Jesup
- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Iñaki Baz Castillo
- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Iñaki Baz Castillo
- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Matthew Kaufman
- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Harald Alvestrand
- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Wolfgang Beck
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- Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability… Iñaki Baz Castillo
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