Re: Off-topic: making WebRTC work in practice (Re: a brief pondering)

[Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg=40ericsson.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

>RIPT trives to get rid of ICE and use HTTP/3 with existing backends. It does not support peer to peer.

Correct. I got confused when you talked about RIPT and peer to peer, because that is not what people have been talking about when it comes to RIPT :)

Regards,

Christer

 

 

 

Den 6. april 2020 23:28:08 CEST, skrev Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg=40ericsson.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi,

 

>>> There should be no benefit to native app except for vendor lock-in.

>>
>> Well, don't discount vendor lock-in.   But of course if the app can
>> communicate directly between peers, whereas the browser cannot, that
>> consumes fewer resources than routing the traffic through the vendor's
>> servers, and likely provides better service to users also.   An app is
>> also better positioned to act as spyware.
>
> WebRTC was designed to allow communication directly between peers.
> Much of the complexity in the stack (which RIPT is trying to get rid of)
> comes precisely from the decision to make it peer to peer.

As far a peer to peer communication is concerned, what complexity does RIPT get rid of? 

 

Regards,

 

Christer

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