Re: [rtcweb] WGLC for draft-ietf-rtcweb-ip-handling

[westhawk <[e-mail]>]

> On 13 Apr 2018, at 02:22, Justin Uberti <juberti=[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Being non-interactive, it's not clear that those cases require Mode 1 though; they should work well even in Mode 2. I also don't think that suggesting "more appropriate means" is useful when we as a WG haven't been able to come up with any.

Whoa there! Non interactive, that’s a big step from non-conversational !
So one current use-case is adjusting room lights over the data channel. You can literally see latency - an unnecessary cloud round-trip is entirely
visible.

Another is driving a droid over the datachannel using it’s camera to feed live video to see where it is going 
- again totally interactive, just not using local media at the user’s end (although we do use the 
motion sensors to give a steering wheel feel) - latency here causes crashes!

A third one is baby cams, where again the video feed is one-way but you’d really like to keep the media on the home wifi
if possible for cost (and privacy) reasons.

In all these I’ll have to introduce an otherwise needless GUM request to get the network behaviour I want. 

Perhaps I should present some of these non-call based usecases at a future F2F so that folks get a sense of the possibilities.

Tim.