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Yes, and it's tricky to make a smooth UX out of it in a web browser setting but the technology is absolutely there. IIRC we managed to make it server-less (in t
by Legogris 7y ago
Yes, and it's tricky to make a smooth UX out of it in a web browser setting but the technology is absolutely there.
IIRC we managed to make it server-less (in the true sense) apart from the need of a Namecoin gateway.
Typically you would use a signalling server coupled with STUN/TURN to discover peers and establish WebRTC connections/routes but it's not required. You could take a look at Rymd above, IIRC the principles are described in the paper. Here's also a minimal PoC that I found by a quick duck:
https://github.com/svarunan/serverless-webrtc https://github.com/svarunan/serverless-webrtc
Once you have a connection to someone in the network you're in the domain for traditional P2P solutions and protocols.
EDIT: Just realized melvinrost explained this better below (: