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Re: [rtcweb] My Opinion: Why I think a negotiating protocol is a Good Thing

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Tue, 18 October 2011 18:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] My Opinion: Why I think a negotiating protocol is a Good Thing
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On 10/18/11 20:16, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> 2011/10/18 Harald Alvestrand<harald@alvestrand.no>:
>> 2) when there is only one web server, one of the browsers is Firefox and the
>> other one is Chrome, the JS needs to have a standard means of communication
>> with the browser. This means a standard.
>> I have explained in my long note why I think it makes sense to describe this
>> as a protocol.
> If that just involves communication between the JS and the browser
> than IMHO that's an API rather than a protocol.
> However, if such signaling between JS and the browser (the RTCweb
> stack) mantains state, then I could agree on naming it "protocol".
ROAP does.
> Anyhow, the point here is: are you advocating for having a default
> signaling protocol in-the-wire or not? It's a bit unclear from your
> first mail given the ammount of signaling fragments in the whole
> RTCweb picture.
>
I'm advocating a single protocol between the Javascript and the Web browser.

It's a viable option for some applications to run that protocol from one 
browser to the other browser over a mechanism of their choice; many 
applications will make other choices, including those who choose to 
implement SIP in Javascript.

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