- From: Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:52:05 -0800
- To: Randell Jesup <randell-ietf@jesup.org>
- Cc: public-webrtc@w3.org
>> Yes - and to be clear, I care more about "unreliable" deliver than >> reliably. As soon as you select "reliable" in SCTP, it means you basically >> don't care about real time and thus you probably could have sent that data >> over websockets via the server. I agree that you "could have sent that data over websockets via the server", but I have the strong belief that for some set of applications that will not be the preferred way to go, either for the clients or the server. Imagine a slightly enhanced version of the original chatroulette, in which the two peers could send each other pre-made movies as well as have live chats. Sure, you could pass them through the server, but that increases the server's costs by a major amount, and for service run on a shoestring, it's pretty suboptimal. It also would have grabbed enough server resources that the rendezvous times for other users might have taken a hit. The other, privacy-related reasons I think are also obvious; the clients may not want the server to be a point of interception for files, and the server may similarly want to avoid this. regards, Ted
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