Re: [rtcweb] SDP Offer/Answer draft-jennings-rtcweb-signaling: Glare handling

[Cullen Jennings <[e-mail]>]

On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:47 , Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:

> 2011/10/18 Cullen Jennings <[e-mail]>:
>> People mean different things by realtime but when talking about it, I think it is important to keep in mind it is mostly the media that needs to be realtime and perhaps the signaling to set up such media is not as does not have the same level of constraints.
> 
> Yes, but it's not just about signaling realtime. HTTP polling means
> unnecesary traffic from client to server. In the other side, WebSocket
> (bidirectional communication without polling) allow the server
> communicating to the client when it has something to say.

All I'm trying to say is that I think there will be applications that use websockets and there will be applications that don't - they will have different impact on servers and performance. There are plenty of web based IM systems operating today that get pretty good performance without websockets. Clearly websockets will have a bunch of desirable features for this sort of signaling.  


> 
> Also I expect that WebSocket will be very common and extended the day
> RTCweb becomes a reality.
> 
> Regards.
> 
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> Iñaki Baz Castillo
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