Re: [rtcweb] Query/Comment on draft-ietf-rtcweb-use-cases-and-requirements-12

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Fri, 24 January 2014 16:30 UTC

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Le 2014-01-24 11:23, Parthasarathi R a écrit :
> I could not understand how does it make sense for you to refer "TURN" in the
> requirement whereas it implies "PCP" or "ICE-TCP" or "TURN over WebSocket"
> in the solution.

I understand the text you're suggesting to mean that WebRTC clients 
would be required support at least one in the set { TURN, ICE-TCP, TURN 
over WebSocket, PCP }. This would be broken. A client that chooses to 
support, for example, only PCP would be ridiculously broken. All clients 
MUST support TURN as a base traversal mechanism. Other mechanisms are 
icing on the cake.

I'm fairly sure this is not what you were suggesting though, since that 
would be so obviously broken. That's why I said that your suggestion 
makes no sense to me.

Simon
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