Re: [rtcweb] Does ROAP mandate the on-the-wire format?

[Hadriel Kaplan <[e-mail]>]

On Oct 21, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:

> Hi, I'm a bit afraid after listeing/reading this phrase in the conf:
> 
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> Cullen:  I will clarify ROAP is over-the-wire protocol, add
> termination, and do some other clarifications, then re-issue.
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> 
> I expect that ROAP does NOT mandate the format of the messages
> exchanged on-the-wire, but just the communication between the JS
> custom code and the RTCweb stack in the browser, am I right? say "yes"
> please.
> What I understand (or want to understand) is that any custom RTCweb
> on-the-wire protocol must satisfy ROAP requirements in some way, so
> when the JavaScript receives some kind of custom message it can
> interpret it and convert into the appropriate ROAP request, and then
> make a ROAP call to the browser via the RTCweb API. Am I right?

Well since the Browser will never know whether ROAP is really to another Browser vs. the Javascript, then yes it could be used that way. (it will probably be painful, but possible)

-hadriel