Proposal: <podcast:stun> tag

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Proposal: <podcast:stun> tag

The intent of this proposal is to provide a tag that allows the application to be made aware of STUN servers for use where other services may need assistance with NAT traversal for peer to peer communication.

The current intended use case for this is to supplement p2p-media-loader outside of PeerTube. This is what will enable 3rd party podcast applications to participate in sharing video bandwidth with other peers.

Example

The following shows three STUN servers.

<rss xmlns:podcast="https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/1.0.md" version="2.0">
    <channel>
    <title>My Podcast</title>
    <description>This is a podcast</description>
    <link>https://example.com/rss-my-podcast.xml</link>
    <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
    <language>en</language>
    <generator>Alecks Gates wrote this by hand in Joplin</generator>
    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:40:52 -0500</pubDate>
    <lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:40:52 -0500</lastBuildDate>
    <podcast:medium>video</podcast:medium>
    <podcast:stun>stun:stun1.l.google.com:19302</podcast:stun>
    <podcast:stun>stun:stunserver.org:3478</podcast:stun>
    <item>
        <title>Generic item</title>
        <otherTagsHere>...</otherTagsHere>
        <podcast:stun>stun:stun.zoiper.com:3478</podcast:stun>
    </item>
    </channel>
</rss>

Definition

<podcast:stun>

The stun tag allows STUN server endpoints to be specified for a channel or individual items.

This can contain a URI pointing to any STUN server.

Parent

channel, item

Count

Multiple

Value

The value must be a valid URI for a STUN server.