- From: Randell Jesup <randell-ietf@jesup.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:59:49 -0800
- To: Tim Panton <thp@westhawk.co.uk>
- CC: public-webrtc@w3.org
On 1/30/2012 1:54 AM, Tim Panton wrote: > I'll just re-iterate that in my view one of the downsides of STCP is > that it is a stream. Many of the things that will travel over this > channel will be messages. If we go for STCP we will require the JS > developers to implement a datagram protocol on top of it. So any 'win' > in baking in the reliable transport isn't as big as it looks at first > sight. Tim. SCTP supports unreliable, reliable and partly-reliable datagrams (not streams). If we choose SCTP/DTLS/UDP (instead of DTLS/SCTP/UDP), we have the option to also use SCTP's reliable streams. -- Randell Jesup randell-ietf@jesup.org
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