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Re: WebRTC and emergency communications (Was: Re: IETF Meeting in South America)

2013-05-25 09:19:20


--On Saturday, May 25, 2013 10:10 +0300 Jari Arkko
<jari(_dot_)arkko(_at_)piuha(_dot_)net> wrote:

...
I didn't know about the details of the emergency
communications situation. But it is always difficult to
balance getting something out early vs. complete. I know how
much pressure there is on the working groups to keep up with
things actually happening in the browsers and organisations
setting up to use this technology. Do you think the retrofit
will be problematic, and do you have a specific suggestion
about what should be included today?

Jari,

James will probably have a different answer and perspective, but
I suggest that retrofits of security-sensitive features are so
often problematic to make "always" not much of an exaggeration.  

I don't think there is any general solution to the "early vs.
complete" tradeoff [1], nor, as long as we keep trying to deal
with things as collections of disconnected pieces rather than
systems, to the issues created by WGs with significant overlaps
in either scope or technology.  What I think we can do is to be
particularly vigilant to be sure that the two WGs are tracking
and frequently reviewing each other's work.   At least RTCWEB
and ECRIT are in the same area, which should make that
coordination easier than it might be otherwise.

   john


[1] Watch for a note about this that I've been trying to
organize for about two weeks and hope to finish and post this
weekend.



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