Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
At the recent XMPP devcon, I talked a bit with Thiago Camargo about NAT
traversal and media relays. There are really two separate issues here:
1. Finding and using STUN servers for NAT traversal. This is discussed
in XEP-0215.
New STUNbis doesn't define "STUN servers". Currently STUNbis is a low
level protocol which you can use in other protocols such as ICE and TURN.
However, as Rémi Denis-Courmont has pointed out [2] on the
IETF's BEHAVE list, it is not necessary for the relay to be a TURN
server. It's great if the relay is a TURN server, but it could be
something else -- and the important point is that for the purposes of
media relaying it doesn't really matter to the Jingle client whether the
relay does TURN or something simpler.
I can't agree :) Why do we need a zoo of relay servers? What is it for?
