Firefox Developers and Community, Furthermore, there are concerns that Facebook's controversial privacy policies, major news events, are occurring in the weeks approaching the upcoming and contentious 2012 International Telecommunication Union World Conference on International Telecommunications, a treaty-level conference. There are concerns that Facebook's privacy policies, related news events and news discussions, as we approach the conference, could be contributive to a certain reactionary mood at the conference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union#World_Conference_on_International_Telecommunications_2012_.28WCIT-12.29). Telecommunications ministers from 193 countries will be attending the conference from December 3rd to December 14th. As you might be aware, a large number of technologists and organizations have serious concerns about Internet regulation, about precedent, including with regard to the International Telecommunications Union.
Ralph Giles, thank you for the link to the project. David Dahl, informationally, WebRTC includes and abstracts key NAT and firewall traversal technology using STUN (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5389), ICE http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5245), TURN (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5766), RTP-over-TCP and support for proxies. The P2PSIP WG at the IETF is exploring NAT traversal topics. With regard to the REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD) protocol, NAT traversal is a fundamental service and the interoperation of ICE and STUN with RELOAD are described in the RELOAD base protocol draft (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-p2psip-base-23). Additionally, WebRTC and STUN extensions are described in another IETF draft document: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-reddy-rtcweb-stun-auth-fw-traversal-00 . P2P video calling and conferencing as well as P2P messaging services, or P2P answering machines, are upcoming topics and technologies. Combinations of upcoming P2P architectures, a number of software options for video calling and conferencing, advancements in distributed messaging technologies, P2P answering machines, the interoperability of browsers with components from multiple providers, and numerous other technological topics could each contribute to diffusing what might have been otherwise a climate of reactionary policy, a climate of reaction to instantaneous and ephemeral topics specific to one or a few popular websites, a climate of reaction concurrent to discussions of durative and substantive matters, matters of tremendous importance, matters which could have impacted the nature of the Internet, of the Web, and of freedom for generations to come. Kind regards, Adam Sobieski _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
