[RTW] Fwd: [Standards-discuss] [Work started on Web Real-Time Communications Working Group (Advance Notice)]

[Harald Alvestrand]

Status report on the work of establishing a W3C activity to do the API
work. If your company is a W3C member, you should make sure your AC
representative knows you're aware of and engaged in this.

Cullen and I are bashing out a corresponding IETF charter proposal.

                     Harald

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From: Ian Jacobs <ij at w3.org>
To: W3C Members <w3c-ac-forum at w3.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:52:00 -0600
Subject: Work started on Web Real-Time Communications Working Group
(Advance Notice)
Dear Advisory Committee Representative,

This is an advance notice that the Team has started work on a charter
for a Working Group to produce specifications that enable Real Time
Communications in Web browsers.

While Web browsers have gained good capabilities to play audio and
video files, they currently don't make possible to establish a direct
communication link between clients. Based on discussions at an
informal workshop in October, a number of W3C Members have expressed
interest in specifying the technologies needed to enable this: the
protocol
considerations would be taken to the IETF, and the proposed W3C
Working Group would work on the client-side technologies, such as the
ones needed to facilitate synchronization of streams, or echo
cancellation.

A draft charter is available (this is not a formal review, just an early draft):
 http://www.w3.org/2010/12/webrtc-charter

We welcome your general expressions of interest and support on
<w3c-ac-forum at w3.org>. You may also send comments directly to
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux <dom at w3.org>.

This announcement follows section 6.2.2 of the Process Document:
 http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups#WGCharterDevelopment

For Tim Berners-Lee, Director,
Philipp Hoschka, Ubiquitous Web Domain Lead, and
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Mobile Web Initiative Activity Lead,
Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications
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Ian Jacobs (ij at w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447

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