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by SahAssar 2276 days ago
> Can’t we just nominate a few of the browsers to do what the SFU does, namely forwarding video to the others?

IIRC this is basically what skype did back when it was P2P, those clients were called supernodes and would route calls for clients that could not be directly P2P. To be a supernode you needed to be internet-routable and have good bandwidth.

Supernodes could be used for hole punching or to relay calls (as you talk about).

See more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol