Re: [rtcweb] Gateways

Victor Pascual Avila <victor.pascual.avila@gmail.com> Tue, 11 November 2014 08:49 UTC

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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Lorenzo Miniero <lorenzo@meetecho.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:26:56 -0800
> Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure that this is the comment Ted was looking for here.
>>
>> I don't think that we need this document, as Keith observes, a short
>> note in -overview suffices:
>>
>> A gateway is a webrtc endpoint or webrtc-compatible endpoint that
>> forwards stuff (media or data) to other endpoints.  This is useful.
>>
>
>
> Having worked on one I think we need more than that, so I'd support such
> a document. There are several things that can go wrong (see the stuff
> we're discussing in STRAW, for instance) so gateways are indeed
> special IMHO.

Agree.

Some examples:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-straw-b2bua-stun-00

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-straw-b2bua-rtcp-02

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ram-straw-b2bua-dtls-srtp-00

-Victor