Re: [rtcweb] draft-sipdoc-rtcweb-open-wire-protocol-00 (Open In-The-Wire Protocol for RTC-Web)

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Fri, 28 October 2011 14:55 UTC

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2011/10/28 Wolfgang Beck <wolfgang.beck01@googlemail.com>:
> Your document gives a nice overview how RTCWEB (WEBRTC? *sigh*)
> messages may look. Section 4 is a bit confusing as Bob calls Alice
> instead of the other way round.

IMHO it is time for Bob to call Alice :)



> It illustrates nicely that trapezoid -style interconnection would only
> work with a common server-to-server protocol like SIP. Nobody would
> try to implement all possible combinations of protocol translators to
> interconnect your four example protocols. With SIP, they "only" have
> to agree on the subset to implement. If SIP does not support a feature
> they support, they can't interconnect.

Right, but the same already occurs when attempting to interconnect two
pure SIP domains. Nothing new here :)


Thanks a lot.



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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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