Re: [rtcweb] ALPN question - other labels?

Christian Groves <Christian.Groves@nteczone.com> Tue, 12 August 2014 03:09 UTC

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>> For now I think it is more important that you be very clear what you intend.
>>
>> I think it means that CLUE implementations will always need to use "webrtc"
>> as the ALPN for the CLUE data channel, so that it will be right when
>> interoperating with WebRTC. That is possible, though it seems weird when not
>> interoperating.
> If the intent is to interoperate with WebRTC, by effectively sitting
> on top of the WebRTC stack, then I don't find that to be particularly
> strange.  That doesn't mean that you can't define a "clue" token,
> which may or may not be identical or at least very similar to
> "webrtc".

I think it would be simpler to offer a "webrtc-datachannel" ALPN in 
addition to the ones defined that allows an endpoint to indicate that it 
is only using datachannel .

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