2013-10-16 stop the silos: the road to federated rtc presented by robin raymond chief architect,...

2013-10-162013-10-16

Stop the Silos: The road to federated RTC

Presented by Robin RaymondChief Architect,

Hookflash / OpenPeer.org

Agenda


Case Study: Open Peer’s Federation

Why is Federation Important?

Features Needed For Federation

When Alice met Bob

Challenges ahead

The World of RTC Today

100 Year Old Technology Still Works Best!


(anyone can call anywhere on the planet at any time)

Legacy / RTC Interactions


(bridging often happens to the legacy network in an attempt at universal access)

“Big Social”


Can we play in your sandbox?

Silo Apps


(with varying degrees of interoperability but for the most part still islands of users)

Protocols


(promise a universal standard for RTC but isn’t solving federated access well)

WebRTC – the future is now!


When Alice met Bob…

Who are Alice and Bob?

Alice calls Bob


This is how Alice and Bob are seen in RTC.

But who are Alice and Bob anyway?

Alice isn’t just a character


She’s a real person.

She has a career, friends, interests,

+she’s online.

Alice is known at work by…


Alice is in communication with friends…


Alice has interests…


And so does Bob…


Unless Alice and Bob are logged into a common website they can’t talk!


??

Alice and Bob Live in Communication Silos


While Alice and Bob use different websites… They are friends! So why can’t they talk?


Alice should be able to be one person behind the scenes…


Federation is important!(Your website is not a silo)


Why can’t they talk together?foo.com bar.com

??

How does Alice contact Bob online?


…when Alice and Bob have so many different online identities?


WebRTC enable every website!


… correct?!?

Buzzzt! Nope.


How does a user on one website talk to a user on another?


(no magic solution)?

Welcome to browser tab hell…


Who’s going to put up with the inevitable:

•Popups•Bouncing tabs•Tab per website identity•Background “ding” sounds with no clear indicator•Badly integrated communication interfaces

Maintaining an active identity connected to each website is not practice on mobile


Imagine switching apps constantly to talk between friends while draining your battery because of constant per site keep-alives.

Is single sign-on the solution?

What is the solution?

…not quite...•allows you to login to "generic” website with another site’s credentials•offers limited and non uniform control over other sites

“Big Social” Solution?


This is where we are going today…•Top social websites and services fight for communication dominance•Unless you are in that group, this is bad for building your own community•Special interest social websites can’t play in this sandbox•Neglects online social migration that occurs over time

Your Telco's Solution:


450-555-1212Every website is reduced to a telephone number behind the scenes:

Are Common Backend Protocols the Solution?


Part of the solution, but not the answer…

•Where is the address book of friends from all the various websites?•How does a user coordinate a between websites?•How does Alice find Bob using the unknown backend protocol account?•Does Alice have to “friend” twice because of protocol demands?•Must Alice and Bob create a single “communication account” and register it with each website or does each site maintain its own “communication account”?

What Features / Services are needed to support Federation?


A device or web app must be able to represent all identities across

federated domains


(thus no need for the user to maintain an open application per identity)

A single communication service provider may be used for all identities


(thus no need for application to maintain an active session to a service provider per identity)

Login once, associate all other identities


(to be able to associate all web facing identities behind the scenes to a single person)

Login into any identity on another device, represent all identities


(do we really want to force a user to login to each identity again per device they own?)

Collect identity contact lists from various sources.


(have up to date lists of all of your contacts)

Social Contacts Address Books Other sources (e.g. LDAP)

Lookup Identity mapping to Communication Service Providers


(thus never losing touch with all of your contacts even you or they migrate across services)

Connect Across Communication Service Providers


(shouldn’t matter who is providing the backend service)

Case Study: How Federation works in Open Peer


What is Open Peer?


Open sourced protocol for federated secure peer-to-peer RTC

Philosophy – Ever person owns their own private / public key pair


AB4C59DEF385… 84FFE32AABC12…

Contact ID

Domain + Contact ID =Everything you need to contact a user in Open Peer


peer://provider.com/AB4C59DEF385…

Contact ID

Server Philosophy – they are (dumb) facilitators


Apps use servers like an army knife of tools but all communication is peer to peer.(they assist in finding identities and connecting peers and go then go away)

Identity Service


• Login / Authorization (web extension API supports OAuth, persona, 3rd party custom login, etc)

• Registration – register public key, service provider and contact ID

• Validation (signature proof of an identity belonging to communication account)

Identity Lookup Service


(resolves each identity public key, contact ID and service provider)

Identity Lockbox Service


Identity Lockbox remembers identity associations, stores keying material and/or other data(but encrypted in ways it cannot decrypt)

Finder Service


Given a public key, contact ID and a domain, find + handshake peers to talk directly

foo.com(service)

bar.com(service)

AB4C59DEF385… 84FFE32AABC12…

(find peer across federated domains)

Rolodex Extension Service


(for simple contact lists, helps clients download delta changes in contacts from identity providers)

Put it together = Federated Open Peer


Identity Rolodex

Alice

Lookup Finder

foo.com bar.com

FinderLockbox

Bob

Challenges ahead

Challenges ahead

Competing Communication Standards

Challenges ahead

Each will play a role, can they be bridged? which will dominate long term?

Versioning

Challenges ahead

Rapid technology progress could introduce incompatibilities and growing pains between federated domains

THEN NOW

WebRTC will make more silos…

Challenges ahead

(unless developers care)

?

Legacy is a benefit and a curse

Challenges ahead

Will RTC federation get reduced to the lowest common dominator for another 100 years?

Resources

http://openpeer.org/

http://about.me/robinraymond


2013-10-16 stop the silos: the road to federated rtc presented by robin raymond chief architect,...

Documents

identity slide

alice contact bob

time slide

alice calls bob

alice isnt

single person slide

universal access slide

bob challenges