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

"Aaron Clauson" <aaron@sipsorcery.com> Wed, 19 October 2011 22:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] A plea for simplicity, marketability - and... who are we designing RTCWEB for?
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>-----Original Message-----
> From: rtcweb-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:rtcweb-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
Of Dan York
>
> <snip>
> 
> The question is - will the RTCWEB/WEBRTC API/protocol/whatever be so
simple and easy that web developers will choose to use it over 
> Flash/Phono/Twilio/Java/whatever to add RTC functions to their web apps?
>
> </snip>
>
> If the answer is no, what are spending all this time for?

I thought the point of RTCWeb was so I'd be able to set up a voice call
between my browser and my VoIP Phone :). Something I can't do now with
Flash/Phono/Twilio/javascript-libraries et al at least not without one or
more media and signalling proxies in between. I originally thought RTCWeb
was going to be the bridge between the VoIP and the Web Worlds but I must
say I'm now a bit lost as to what it's about with all the different ideas
flying around at lightspeed.

My own very very humble opinion is that RTCWeb should incorporate RTP (over
UDP & TCP), a codec plugin mechanism and mircophone/speaker/camera
integration and bake it all into the browser. Everything else (signalling,
SDP, easy to use APIs etc. etc.) will be sorted out by smart devs coming up
with javascript libraries.

Aaron

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