Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Query regarding rtcweb use cases and requirements.

From: Salvatore Loreto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:55:25 +0300

at moment the requirements/use case for Data are in the following draft
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-00

/Salvatore

On 3/27/12 1:36 PM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> On 03/27/2012 09:51 AM, [email-masked] wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   
>> This is with regards to the following document:
>> Web Real-Time Communication Use-cases and Requirements
>> draft-ietf-rtcweb-use-cases-and-requirements-06.txt
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtcweb-use-cases-and-requirements/?include_text=1
>> I have noticed that the use cases with regards to Data API of web 
>> real time communication, have not been addressed. For example: use 
>> cases that are related to file sharing between browsers.
>> is there any particular reason for the same?
> Requirement F23 is a data-passing requirement.
>
> For communications that did not need low latency, the WG felt that the 
> RTCWEB requirements were not different from the requirements of any 
> other application, so those could be fulfilled with other types of 
> interfaces, including server-mediated file transfers.
>
> The WG is suggesting data API/protocol solutions that can be used for 
> other things than fulfiling the most narrow interpretation of the 
> requirement listed, but did not feel a need to add a requirement 
> covering those.
>
> The purpose of the "use cases and requirements" is to find a minimum 
> set of things that the protocol suite has to be able to do in order to 
> be "good enough", not to delineate everything the protocol can be used 
> for.
>
> My interpretation....
>
>                       Harald
>
>
>
>
>> Regards,
>> Antony Meyn
>>
>>
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