- From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 03:42:06 -0400
- To: "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
Just a reminder.... at the recent retreat, the question of whether we can use / adapt the Sockets API was brought up again, with particular reference to this proposal: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/streams-api/raw-file/tip/Overview.htm This API proposal is based on a byte-stream model, not a datagram model. It is therefore not possible to use the exact same model with either WebSockets or the DataChannel APIs. The adaptation in that draft for XHR suggests that a single datagram may be a Stream, but this does not do anything to solve the pushback problem for a sequence of datagrams such as is naturally carried by DataChannels. Anyone wishing to propose using Streams in relationship with the DataChannels API needs to present a proposal that explains what issues they are trying to solve, and how they plan on making the Streams API solve them. It's not obvious that there's a good fit here. -- Surveillance is pervasive. Go Dark.
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