Re: [rtcweb] Comments on draft-ietf-rtcweb-transports-01

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Wed, 13 November 2013 17:40 UTC

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Le 2013-11-13 11:33, Ravindran, Parthasarathi (NSN - IN/Bangalore) a écrit :
> In case of Browser - GW/Server use cases (Sec 3.4 of draft-ietf-rtcweb-use-cases-and-requirements-12), the end-to-end TCP connection is between browser & Gateway directly. Here, GW/server acts as RTP endpoint/mixer in the middle of the network and acts as "RTP relay" [Note 1] to the actual remote endpoint. TURN server (TCP to UDP relay) is becoming "second middle box" in case GW/server provider has to deploy TURN server as well. ICE-TCP solves the issue as it creates the host candidates from GW/Server.

All this relies on the possibility that a TCP peer-to-peer connection 
could be successfully established where a UDP one couldn't. IMHO this is 
very unlikely to happen in practice. So unlikely in fact that any 
possible gain over just falling back on a TURN relay wouldn't be worth 
the additional implementation cost.

Simon
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