Re: [rtcweb] Review request for RTCWeb standard signaling protocol

Neil Stratford <neils@belltower.co.uk> Sat, 08 October 2011 13:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Review request for RTCWeb standard signaling protocol
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On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Saul Ibarra Corretge
<saul@ag-projects.com>wrote:

>
> On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Neil Stratford wrote:
> > - No server side infrastructure (SIP proxies etc) to maintain or
> configure.
> >
> > - No special understanding in the server side web application beyond
> discovering peer identities you might want to communicate with.
>
> Looks like some zeroconf style thing, it could be an interesting thing to
> explore. Do you have any ideas on how the discovery would work over the
> Internet?


I imagine a signalling protocol such as this would look a lot like p2psip,
though there is something interesting about baking a p2p overlay network
into the browser and exposing it through an API that could then be used to
build all kinds of services in javascript, including p2p SIP signalling for
RTC.

The great thing about *not* defining a signalling protocol is that we are
free to experiment with signalling in all kinds of ways.