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Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability - and... who are we designing RTCWEB for?

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Fri, 21 October 2011 12:41 UTC

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2011/10/21 Wolfgang Beck <wolfgang.beck01@googlemail.com>:
> But as browsers can load JS on the fly,  user A could simply point her
> browser to Server B and use the same client as user B. Now all
> components at the signaling layer are provided by a single vendor and
> no standardized protocol is required. There is no loss of information
> as there are no protocol translators.

I agree with this approach, but it also leaves the door open (that's
important) to two different websites A and B implementing different
client-server protocols to interoperate in case they agree on another
protocol X between their servers and they build a protocol translator
in each side. That's up to them (like a custom federation).

This will be always possible but we cannot mandate or influence on it.
WWW will decide (as it always does). Time to time. The important point
here (IMHO) is to leave the door open for innovation, as much as
possible. WWW is untamable.

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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