Re: [rtcweb] Data transfer

"Timothy B. Terriberry" <tterriberry@mozilla.com> Mon, 19 September 2011 04:34 UTC

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> There are many other uses of peer-to-peer data, such as file-transfer
> during
> chat(you want reliable or you get to re-invent a reliable protocol over
> UDP),

Perhaps this should be added as a use-case? It has strong implications 
for the congestion control algorithm, as discussed at the interim 
telecon: you can have an arbitrarily large amount of data to send as 
fast as your pipe can carry it, and that has to compete with the media 
traffic.