Re: Issue 231: DataChannel: short vs. long data types

More than 65,536 is a *lot* of retransmits
More than 65s is a long time to retransmit.

I don't think there's much need to make those 32-bit.  Why would anyone
ever use values that big?  Plus, we might have a different protocol in the
future which doesn't use 32-bit for them.  No point in being overly tied to
SCTP.



On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Bernard Aboba <Bernard.Aboba@microsoft.com>
wrote:

> >From Robin Raymond:
>
> dictionary RTCDataChannelParameters {
> DOMString label = "";
> boolean ordered = true;
> unsigned short maxPacketLifetime;
> unsigned short maxRetransmits;
> DOMString protocol = "";
> boolean negotiated = false;
> unsigned short id;
> };
> unsigned short maxPacketLifetime;
> unsigned short maxRetransmits;
> ^ those aren’t shorts (16 bits), they are 32 bit in the protocol
>