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Re: Allowing RTCIceServer to contain multiple URLs

From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 14:05:35 -0700
Message-ID: <CABcZeBOQKsK+9ygxrt7aZ1C_5VRQn8yyZxksm81aNaLgpX9vYA@mail.gmail.com>
To: Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Uberti <juberti@google.com>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>, Mallinath Bareddy <mallinath@google.com>
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> I personally think S-NAPTR could work here, but there are two trade-offs
> to consider:
>
> S-NAPTR targets are domain names, which means you may incur a round-trip
> in discovering the associated addresses for the domain names.  In some
> cases, they are pointers to services which also require S-NAPTR look ups
> (see section 4.3 of RFC 3958 for an example); those may incur two round
> trips.  There are ways to optimize this, but it can incur extra latency.
>
> S-NAPTR (and other DDDS approaches) really give you two things:  data
> about what's available and data about the ordering that is preferred by the
> service owner.  While that might come into play here, I have heard a use
> case for it.  Is there one
>

And in this case, that data is in JS that came from the server, so it could
express those opinions
directly in the API.

-Ekr
Received on Friday, 31 May 2013 21:06:43 UTC

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