Re: [rtcweb] URI schemes for TURN and STUN

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Fri, 04 November 2011 15:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] URI schemes for TURN and STUN
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On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> wrote:
>> Top-posting a general principle, detailed comment at the bottom....
>
>> For all URI schemes, I think the URI needs to contain all the
>> information you need in order to make contact with the service; you
>> can't negotiate until you've made contact.
>> (the process may involve things like "resolve through a resolution
>> mechanism like DNS" or "get authorization tokens from somewhere else").
>
>> In the case of TURN, you need to distinguish between TCP, UDP and TLS,
>> and you need to make that determination before you send the first
>> packet. That means the distinguishing information between those three
>> things belongs in the URL; I don't think the scheme is a good place to
>> encode it.
>
> I'm in complete agreement with Harald on all of these points. And while it
> would have been nice if URL syntax was less messy and more general, making
> it easier to do these sorts of things in a consistent way, it quite simply
> isn't and we have to make do with what we have.

I don't have any commitment to the scheme. What's the best place?

-Ekr