Re: Call for adoption - WEBRTC-QUIC

> On 23Nov, 2018, at 13:40, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
> 
> On 11/23/2018 11:02 AM, Sergio Garcia Murillo wrote:
>> On 23/11/2018 10:52, westhawk wrote:
>>> One problem that QUIC_theoretically_  solves is the congestion
>>> control problem by bringing everything under
>>> the same protocol, but only if you move all media to QUIC and ban RTP.
>> 
>> Just for the sake of completeness, the other problem that QUIC solves
>> is the sync between media and data, something that is not achievable
>> today between SCTP and RTP (AFAIK).
>> 
>> This is already contemplated on the webrtc NV uses cases and it is a
>> critical issue for many applications (for example VR ones)
> 
> I've made a couple of stabs in the past at making correlation possible
> between data and media (the easiest seems to be to offer access to the
> RTP timestamp of the frames on both sides of the connection). But those
> efforts have petered out for lack of interest.

As there seems to be general agreement that this use case is now interesting maybe the easier solution would be to revive one of these now and deliver a probably quicker solution for these uses, instead of establishing new transport protocols for which the synchronization would have to be solved as well.

Best
  Nils Ohlmeier

Received on Friday, 23 November 2018 21:59:03 UTC