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Re: [rtcweb] Let's define the purpose of WebRTC

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Mon, 07 November 2011 19:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Let's define the purpose of WebRTC
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On 11/07/2011 05:53 PM, Wolfgang Beck wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Harald Alvestrand<harald@alvestrand.no>  wrote:
> [on SIP-style forking]
>> If we were doing a greenfield application, I'd let the server tell all the
>> possible endpoints that they should set up a connection to the original
>> caller, and forget about the caller calling anyone.
>>
>> The difference between caller and callee is a question of your level of
>> abstraction.....
> That's the kind of innovative thinking I thought RTCWEB was all about.
It's also something that is eminently doable with the currently proposed 
API.
> And this forking discussion is a good example how the requirement to
> have interop between different RTCWEB apps and/or SIP is holding us
> back. Ditch the trapezoid and do greenfield.
>
>
> Wolfgang Beck
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