[kwindla]

Regarding performance: we've been collecting (anonymized) data from real-world WebRTC calls for several years, and sadly it's no longer true that p2p routes are generally more performant.

It definitely used to be true that most p2p routes were lower latency than bouncing through a server at, say, an AWS data center. In 2019 we looked closely at this and it was fairly rare to see cases where latency was improved by switching over from a p2p connection to an SFU (media server) connection. Now, the reverse is true. It's usually the case that routing through a media server at AWS (or any other major provider) is as good or better than a p2p route between any two end users.

Early in the pandemic, we assumed this was a temporary thing. ISPs had not built out their networks expecting much upstream traffic. But they'd adjust.

well, ISPs have evolved. Now we see much better performance in general than we did early in the pandemic. But we still see better performance to "the backbone" than we do between ISPs.

Another step in the Internet become less of a decentralized network, perhaps.