[kwlug-disc] Videoconference testing -- please help

[Jason Eckert]

Ah - yes, I see your point.
I think that is functional fixedness on my part because I'm living in MS
Teams right now. I looked at it from a "How do we take a complex system
that has many bells and whistles (chat, file hosting, 2-way screen sharing,
etc.) and make it less centralized and more end-to-end?" rather than "How
do we build a system that is end-to-end from the ground up, and then
potentially add other components to it?"  There'd still have to be
centralized key management (even mini blockchains would need centralized
components to work reliably in practice), but the other components could be
decentralized to the point where little is done by a central set of
servers. However, I wonder if we're at the point where designing a system
like that would be a) as fast, or b) as practically useful for the average
user given their equipment and the speeds/demands of their network
connection...

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 10:58 PM Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 07:30:59AM -0400, Jason Eckert wrote:
> > Agreed - but that sort of implementation would be costlier on the systems
> > and network, and the commercial products out there are all about
> maximizing
> > returns and profitability.
> > If the open source community wanted to do it, well.... it could work if
> > rethought properly :D
>
> Where would the cost come in?  I think the majority of the cost in an
> SFU web conference setup would be on the client's end, doing the
> encryption and decryption (which, to be honest, they are probably
> doing anyway, via WebRTC / HTTPS, in this case it would just be a
> different key).
>
> The server side would still be shuffling packets around, similarly sized
> too.
>
> - Chris
>
>
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