Contact emails
[email protected]

Explainer
https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Multicast-in-Direct-Sockets


Specification
None


Summary

Allows Isolated Web Apps to subscribe to multicast groups and receive UDP 
packets from there, and to specify additional parameters when sending UDP 
packets to multicasts addresses.



Blink component
Blink>Network->Direct Sockets


Motivation

1. Synchronous video stream from one device to the whole network of devices. 
For example, imagine in a shopping mall there would be multiple displays which 
show videos simultaneously on all devices. 2. Device discovery on a local 
network. mDNS protocol uses multicast sockets under the hood. In short, when a 
device joins a network, it sends a message: “Hello, I am headphones-10, my ip 
is '20.20.20.14' . Who else is here?”, other devices reply and in such a manner 
all devices can know about each other without a central server.



Initial public proposal
https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/228


TAG review
None


TAG review status
Pending


Risks




Interoperability and Compatibility

None


Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:


WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it 
has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

None




Debuggability

None



Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
No


Flag name on about://flags
None


Finch feature name
None


Non-finch justification
None


Requires code in //chrome?
False


Estimated milestones

No milestones specified



Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5073740211814400?gate=5085174849208320


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