"IETF" entries
21st century communication with WebRTC
Engaging in-depth on the web with peer-to-peer connections.
As the web platform continues to evolve, tools have emerged for connecting people and computers in new and interesting ways. Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) stands out as one of the most significant and disruptive of these emerging technologies, allowing developers to embed peer-to-peer real-time communication in the browser without proprietary plugins, while breaking away from the traditional client-server paradigm.
Since Google released and open-sourced the WebRTC project in early 2011, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have been working together to formalize the WebRTC standard and 1.0 stable release. Companies like Twilio and Vidyo have adopted WebRTC as a protocol for video chat in the browser, and established telco and VoIP players such as Cisco, Ericsson, and Telefónica have also lent support to the project.
At the most recent meeting of the IETF, Simon Pietro Romano, author of Real-Time Communication with WebRTC, hosted a panel to discuss developments in the WebRTC community and the road ahead. The panel, who are driving forces behind ongoing standardization and implementation, included:
- Justin Uberti, tech lead for the WebRTC team at Google
- Eric Rescorla of Mozilla
- Dan Burnett, editor of the PeerConnection and getUserMedia W3C WEBRTC specification
- Cullen Jennings, Cisco Fellow and Co-Chair of the IETF RTCWeb
I’d encourage you to listen to the whole conversation, but to get started, you might explore these highlights.