Re: [rtcweb] Call for Consensus on Use Case for Screen/Application/Desktop sharing

Randell Jesup <randell-ietf@jesup.org> Mon, 19 September 2011 14:23 UTC

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On 9/19/2011 10:20 AM, Timothy B. Terriberry wrote:
>>> browser into VNC. Was there discussion on the con call about what IT
>>> department types would think of these two scenarios?
>>
>> To be honest, no, it wasn't discussed, and it very much should be. This
>
> The issue of "what will the enterprise think" has certainly been 
> raised before on this list (albeit in slightly different contexts). 
> See, e.g., 
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg00768.html

Yes, though that's a different topic than the security aspect Hadriel 
was asking about (access to screen, mouse, keyboard, etc).  And those 
have not been adequately explored around this use-case that I've proposed.

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Randell Jesup
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