[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG: COVID-19 Impact

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Mar 30 17:29:33 EDT 2020


On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 03:11:29PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> Hmm.
> If the call initiator mixes all the data for all the participants its not
> really distributed.
> Its just a hosted service with floating hosts.
> It would be a real problem if you wanted to initiate a large meeting while
> having a bad internet connection.

jami certainly claims to be peer-to-peer and even claims to have less
latency because everyone sends directly to everyone else.

So I would think that implies any mixing happens on the clients.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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