9223 2010-03-10 12:55:49 +0000 It is unlikely this will work on mobile as you cannot make tcp connections into a mobile phone. They will be blocked by the operator's firewall and this is very unlikely to change. Of course, this isn't a reason not to specify this, but it's good to be aw 2011-05-10 01:03:00 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#devices P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 32882 0 contributor 2010-03-10 12:55:49 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#devices Comment: It is unlikely this will work on mobile as you cannot make tcp connections into a mobile phone. They will be blocked by the operator's firewall and this is very unlikely to change. Of course, this isn't a reason not to specify this, but it's good to be aware that it will not work for a very large class of devices. Posted from: 74.125.57.49 34195 1 ian 2010-03-30 22:59:15 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Partially Accepted Change Description: no change made (no change requested) Rationale: Yeah. The same problem actually exists with home networks that use NAT (many of them). The solution is some form of NAT traversal. This is all a subject for another spec that this spec can rely on, though (hopefully something for the IETF). 48395 2 ian 2011-05-10 01:03:00 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: no spec change Rationale: Ok, the spec is now updated to use ICE which should help with this as much as we practically can.