Sorry if I came out a bit strong – that wasn’t the intent.

Please – do vent. Here. All the time.

The challenge with what you’re looking for is the business model for the person(s) building that. For the most part, there has not been any good one that I’ve seen so far 🙁

While I share that desire, I believe that today it isn’t really feasible due to market forces.

I’m just venting… And certainly not at you or the conference.

Venting on a higher level…

As to point—specifically—is more about the final ownership or access to my data, and not so much about businesses offering services.

But just as you blog about what interests you, I was merely echo’ing what many of us early adopters were pitched.

Which was more in line with my first post… Taking back control of our own data, communications, finances, contracts, etc… from prying eyes and bad actors.

And sadly, I see the same pattern… Awesome start-ups…. Awesome product…. Sells out to ABC Co.

In short, not so much about the propagation of WebRTC as a standard (anymore), but about real, true, verifiable ownership of my data.

And it would thrill me to see a kind of “Asterisk everything server” wrapped up in an Electron executable, easier to use than WhatsApp…

Didn’t mean to stir up your comment thread. Just wishing I saw more GNU-style, “free as in speech” kind of spirit in these conferences…

T.

T,

Not really sure how you got that impression that WebRTC didn’t NEED centralized anything.

Sessions still start the same way anything does over the internet – with a DNS lookup and an HTTP request to a signaling server. TURN still needs to be deployed.

WebRTC might enable decentralized implementations, but this was never its focus. It simply sought out to bring to the web what was always possible in VoIP – sending and receiving media in real time (and then some arbitrary data as well).

Why I don’t report these? Because they’re less in my own interest and probably because there’s less progress there as far as I can tell.

Where is GitTorrent news? Where is Web Torrent? IPFS integration? P2P legally-binding contracts? Crypto / RTC innovation?

Where is my “everything” server?

Virtualized, encrypted, and living on my own hard drive, or my own Tails Linux stick… Or my suped-ip Pi…

– You know, take back control of my email from Google.
– Take back control of my web server from Amazon.
– Take back my payments back from PayPal.
– Take back my social media from FB, Twitter
– Take back my file storage from DropBox
– Take back my code from Microsoft (GitHub)
– Take back my phone system from ATT
– Take back my graphics tools from Adobe
– Take back my OS from Apple… well… Let’s not be unrealistic here.

Maybe it’s just me, but I thought the spirit of WebRTC was that we didn’t NEED centralized anything anymore.

Cathedral and the Bazaar

My 2 cents.

— Uncle T.

I haven’t gotten to the 2nd day keynote (yet), so can’t say a lot about the IoT/SIM progress.

The number is big and impressive, but it just doesn’t indicate anything about engagement.

On the other hand, this is what all other CPaaS vendors publicize if they publicize a number.

The significance of the voice and messaging transports comes out loud and clear here – but also the growing importance of the ‘new’ modes of transmission that use social media channels rather than traditional cellular means. THe rapid uptake of these new channels can be attributed to multiple factors; lower cost, better functionality – and overall better customer responses being the most significant factors.

I am particularly interested in watching what Twilio is doing with their IoT/SIM operations; I see this as a semi-covert attempt to move into the mobile space, where, if you can get into the mobile signalling, it is possible to do some really powerful things….. The fact that there was little to report this year implies that they still have some way to go in this space – getting 3GPP / GSMA procedure based systems up and running is a hideously over-complicated and difficult task, about which very few people know how to proceed.