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It's frustrating to see so many disparate efforts. For example, there's the Peer to Peer Streaming Protocol[1] work occurring in the IETF. Really fantastic stu
by quadhome 14y ago
It's frustrating to see so many disparate efforts.
For example, there's the Peer to Peer Streaming Protocol[1] work occurring in the IETF. Really fantastic stuff! (they basically took Bittorrent, stripped the cruft, and used a Merkle Tree to enable streaming.)
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/ppsp/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/ppsp/
- wmf 14y agoDon't forget RELOAD, DECADE, and ALTO. The IETF is somewhat broken right now because they let people who frankly don't matter create working groups, and so those WGs turn out to be pointless. But to their credit, PPSP (swarming overlay multicast) is fairly orthogonal to WebRTC (low-latency point-to-point A/V chat). There are probably some aspects of the protocols that could be similar; I don't know if they're trying to converge those parts.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoI'd replace the word "frustrating" with "exciting" or "promising". What's frustrating about choice, competition and experimentation?