Re: WebRTC and backpressure (how to stop reading?)

On 27 Mar 2014, at 03:26, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 March 2014 14:57, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
>> In fact, you might want to read up on HTTP/2.0 - especially why it's
>> neccessary, and why it uses a single congestion-control connection between
>> each client/server pair, not multiple ones.
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> ...and why per-stream flow control (i.e., back pressure, which is not
> much related to congestion control) is critical to the operation of
> the protocol.
> 
> I think that we should be asking the IETF to fix SCTP for us (as
> opposed to patching its deficiences over the top).
We thought about this in the past, but it is non-trivial. This is also
one of the reasons why (in the socket API) there are no sockets per
file descriptor or you can't read from a particular stream.

So I would like to understand first what API you want and think about how to
make that work from a protocol perspective second. Simple start/stop
semantics can be realised by transferring reliably corresponding messages.

Best regards
Michael
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