Overview: Real Time Protocols for Browser-based Applications
draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-19
Network Working Group H. Alvestrand
Internet-Draft Google
Intended status: Standards Track November 12, 2017
Expires: May 16, 2018
Overview: Real Time Protocols for Browser-based Applications
draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-19
Abstract
This document gives an overview and context of a protocol suite
intended for use with real-time applications that can be deployed in
browsers - "real time communication on the Web".
It intends to serve as a starting and coordination point to make sure
all the parts that are needed to achieve this goal are findable, and
that the parts that belong in the Internet protocol suite are fully
specified and on the right publication track.
This document is an Applicability Statement - it does not itself
specify any protocol, but specifies which other specifications WebRTC
compliant implementations are supposed to follow.
This document is a work item of the RTCWEB working group.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Principles and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. Goals of this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Relationship between API and protocol . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3. On interoperability and innovation . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. Architecture and Functionality groups . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. Data transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5. Data framing and securing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6. Data formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7. Connection management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
8. Presentation and control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9. Local system support functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
12. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
13. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
13.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
13.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Appendix A. Change log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
A.1. Changes from draft-alvestrand-dispatch-rtcweb-datagram-00
to -01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
A.2. Changes from draft-alvestrand-dispatch-01 to draft-
alvestrand-rtcweb-overview-00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
A.3. Changes from draft-alvestrand-rtcweb-00 to -01 . . . . . 20
A.4. Changes from draft-alvestrand-rtcweb-overview-01 to
draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
A.5. Changes from -00 to -01 of draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview . . 21
A.6. Changes from -01 to -02 of draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview . . 21
A.7. Changes from -02 to -03 of draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview . . 21
A.8. Changes from -03 to -04 of draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview . . 22
A.9. Changes from -04 to -05 of draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview . . 22
A.10. Changes from -05 to -06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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