Re: Alternative to the offer/answer mechanism

2013/6/19 cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org>:
>> May be you could play such a game if you don't see WebRTC as a generic
>> SIP phone running in a browser capable of connecting to any SIP
>> provider. That's not WebRTC.
>>
>> WebRTC starts when a user navigates a web, gets a WebRTC JS code
>> (unknowingly) and the web page offers him multimedia capabilities for
>> contacting other users (or PSTN numbers if you want). Then the JS app
>> connects, somehow, to the same web server or a different
>> HTTP/WebSocket server for initializating the signaling channel (if
>> needed), and then RTP happens.
>>
>> Now note that the WebRTC JS code and the HTTP/WebSocket server are
>> provided by the *same* website / domain / provider, so forget
>> interoperability problems.
>>
>

>     I'm not in a position to answer that question, only vendors and gateway
> providers are. If gateways are in a position to execute Javascript then this
> might work, but I don't think you necessarily have to force Javascript on
> them.

But... why do you say that "gateways should execute JavaScript"??? JS
is just executed in the browser.



>There are plenty of "dumb" data formats (like SDP) that could act as a
> good replacement for the offer/answer mechanism without requiring gateways
> to implement an entire Javascript engine.

¿? I think I have not expressed myself well :)






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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>

Received on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 21:57:31 UTC