Re: Summary of "What is missing for building real services" thread

On 01/17/2014 05:55 AM, cowwoc wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> This isn't strictly tied to the spec, but I think it makes a lot of 
> sense to release a Native API at the same time as v1 that implements 
> the same functionality as the Javascript API.

That's out of scope for the standardization activity, however.

Exactly who do you think would be interested in releasing such a thing?

>
> Browser peers will use the Javascript API while non-browser peers 
> (mobile native apps, servers and gateways) will use the Native API. 
> Currently everyone is rolling out their own version and there is a 
> huge amount of wasted effort reinventing the wheel.
>
> So to reiterate: the purpose of this API isn't code portability, but 
> rather it is meant to be a reference/sample implementation of the 
> functionality. Right now some of this functionality resides in Chrome 
> (sitting above the Native API). Essentially I'm just asking you to 
> move as much WebRTC-specific functionality out of Chrome and into the 
> Native API such that (as much as possible) the Javascript API is a 
> thin layer on top of native code.