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

Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 18 October 2011 23:40 UTC

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From: Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
To: Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan@acmepacket.com>
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Review request for RTCWeb standard signaling protocol
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan@acmepacket.com>wrote:

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> You make this sound like you believe this to be an advantage.
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>  It *is* an advantage.  It puts the power in the hands of the app
> developer, not the browser developer.
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As Peter Parker's uncle Ben tells, us, with great power comes great
responsibility.  Yes, it gives them a choice, but it also makes them
responsible for something that is, bluntly, infrastructure plumbing that
most of them would rather just worked.

>  Having seen the bit-rot in quite a few libraries,
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>  Have you ever used Internet Explorer??
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Not lately; it doesn't run on any of my current platforms.


> (and I'm not slamming IE because I think their developers are bad - they
> have a very tough job of keeping compatibility with numerous Windows OS
> versions, drivers, etc. - I just think they'll focus on doing that rather
> dealing with signaling protocol changes/bug-fixes for RTCWeb in any timely
> manner)
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>   It's certainly less efficient and, given the majority of users now
> accessing the Internet via mobile devices which are power and bandwidth
> constrained, that sort of wastefulness should not be trivially dismissed.
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>  If a mobile platform is so constrained of power and bandwidth that
> downloading a JS library is difficult, it's unlikely it would be able to
> handle RTP/RTCP media regardless.
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You don't get to be rich by making a lot of money, you get to be rich by
keeping it.  The same is true with energy in mobile systems.  Pay attention
to it all the time, and there's a fair chance you will never run out.  Pay
attention to it only when you're low, and you're likely paying attention to
late.

regards,

Ted



>  -hadriel
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