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Transferable MediaStreamTrack: Within Agent Cluster or between Agent Clusters?

Open alvestrand opened this issue 2 years ago • 11 comments

https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-extensions/#transferable-mediastreamtrack does not specify any restrictions on transfer of a MediaStreamTrack.

When investigating the possibility of implementing this extension, we found that there were fundamental differences in the complexity of transferring within an Agent Cluster (basically same-origin iframes and DedicatedWorker) and transferring outside an Agent Cluster.

It's fairly obvious that there are potential use cases for cross-cluster transfer, but it's also obvious that supporting them is costly.

Should we restrict transfer of MediaStreamTracks to within an Agent Cluster, or should we require universal transferability?

alvestrand avatar Nov 24 '21 09:11 alvestrand