[R-C] Modular Congestion Control in rtcweb

[Luca De Cicco]

Dear Lars,

my replies are inline.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Eggert, Lars <lars at netapp.com> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2012, at 15:15, Luca De Cicco wrote:
>> For what I know, DCCP is only supported by the Linux kernel as of today.
>
> There seem to be some DCCP userspace implementations. I have no experience with any of them and so cannot comment on their quality, but they do exist:
>
> http://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/pgnet2008/Proceeedings/Papers/2008057.pdf
> http://www.phelan-4.com/dccp-tp/tiki-index.php
>

Yes I'm aware of those implementations (yet I didn't tested any of them),
however I thought - maybe wrongly - Wesley was suggesting using a
kernel space implementation of DCCP to move, so to speak,  the complexity
of CC out of webrtc scope.

>> I think developing the congestion control in the userspace is still
>> a good idea to speed up deployment.
>
> True. But that's completely orthogonal to what protocol we pick.
>

Yep, that's true, in fact the whole purpose of making congestion control modular
in webrtc is to make webrtc oblivious to the congestion control
protocol we pick :).

Luca