[RTW] Relationship of the proposed W3C RTC group with WHATWG

[Harald Alvestrand]

On 03/16/11 12:46, Rich Tibbett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is currently a whole lot of ongoing work in the WHATWG around 
> real-time web communications [whatwg-spec#rtc] [html-tracker].
>
> What is the relationship between the proposed W3C activity 
> [w3c-rtc-charter] and the work currently being done in the WHATWG?
The proposed W3C WG is intended to be the W3C mirror of the IETF 
activity in RTCWEB. I believe the PeerConnection API currently proposed 
for inclusion in the HTML5 spec would be better processed as a work item 
of that WG. Obviously, the editor of the WHATWG HTML spec doesn't feel 
like waiting for that activity before proposing something as part of HTML5.

The current proposal is a lot better than the previous ConnectionPeer 
spec, so I can't blame him much, but I still have technical issues with it.
>
> While there is an obvious need for IETF activity on underlying 
> protocols, codecs and formats I'm unsure as to how a W3C RTC group is 
> going to effectively manage any overlaps here.
So am I. Input here and to the WHATWG and W3C on what people think would 
be appropriate methods to manage the division of labour would be 
helpful. I have my opinions, but I'm not the only one whose opinion matters.
>
> Any clarifications would be helpful.
>
> - Rich
>
> [whatwg-spec#rtc] 
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/video-conferencing-and-peer-to-peer-communication.html#video-conferencing-and-peer-to-peer-communication
>
> [html-tracker] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker
>
> [w3c-rtc-charter] http://www.w3.org/2010/12/webrtc-charter.html
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