RE: Free (as in beer) webex

[Larry Masinter <LMM@xxxxxxx>]

Dogfooding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food)

 

only helps if there’s commitment to improve the product (WebRTC)

 

 

From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 11:04 PM
To: Larry Masinter <LMM@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Toerless Eckert <tte@xxxxxxxxx>; Sarah Banks <sbanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; IETF Free Beer <ietf@xxxxxxxx>; Cullen Jennings <fluffy@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Free (as in beer) webex

 

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 11:07 PM Larry Masinter <LMM@xxxxxxx> wrote:

https://etherpad.ietf.org:9009/p/ManyCouches

 I thought the whole point of WebRTC was to get rid of need
for native clients of need for conferencing vendors (or at least
 those who could charge per-minute.)

 

It is relatively easy to get 2 person communications working peer-peer 'most of the time'. All you need to work out is the NAT traversal.

 

But NAT traversal isn't going to be 100% reliable and when you get to a group call, you really have to make use of some sort of reflector service. And video is quite a bit of bandwidth, especially if you have lots of people. 

 

My complaint is that these are not end-to-end secure.