At 09:58 PM 1/14/2003, Jonathan Rosenberg wrote:
David,
Ben, Paul and I discussed your comments extensively over the last week
or so. Our conclusion was that we will not use comedia for simple
messaging sessions. At a high level, the conclusion was that we were
looking at "message sessions over TCP" and that comedia was perhaps
optimized for "streaming media sessions over TCP". As such, many of
our requirements that were critical, or assumptions we could make
(such as demux within a single TCP connection) don't necessarily apply
to streaming media over TCP.
Now, I still think that much of what we proposed is valid. However, it
is no longer critical to get it changed. So, keep that in mind as you
read my responses below.
The the meta-question is whether comedia-fix will continue to block
comedia's progress. On one hand you imply above that it won't, but then
again we have the rest of this email that argues that comedia is
severely flawed. So, where are we going from here?
I still have a big beef with the source IP/port, per separate email.
Beyond that, I believe that the limitations of comedia will restrict its
utility; certainly, they limited the ability for me to use it. But since
I am not using it, I am not going to complain further about things where
nothing is broken per se, its just not what I think is the right
thing. Thus, the one port vs. many port debate, and connection lifetime
issues, I won't pursue further.