- From: Tim Panton <thp@westhawk.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:02:14 +0000
- To: Randell Jesup <randell-ietf@jesup.org>
- Cc: public-webrtc@w3.org
On 30 Jan 2012, at 09:59, Randell Jesup wrote: > 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. > Sorry - that will teach me not to press send before the second cup of coffee of the morning. Would we be exposing all those modes with appropriate javascript apis ? > -- > Randell Jesup > randell-ietf@jesup.org > Tim Panton - Web/VoIP consultant and implementor www.westhawk.co.uk
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