W3C WebRTC Meetup Update

Feb 2023
FOSDEM

Romain Vailleux
APIRTC DevRel
WebRTC Paris Meetup | DevFest Perros-Guirec
@rvailleux@fosstodon.org | @WebRTCWildCard on Twitch

WebRTC - a W3C Standard

2021 - WebRTC becomes a standard
(per W3C and IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force))

W3C - a Community-led Standardization Organization

• Any individual can participate to working groups
• Anyone can be a W3C member (membership fees apply :))
  • Browser Editors
  • End-users Solution providers
• Any member can propose for a new standard
• A standard will succeed only if it is elaborated collectively
• The working group leaders are making sure the consensus is going forward and reached before publication of a news standard.

Deployed/Matured topics

• Media Capture and Streams (Candidate Recommendation Drafts)
• Screen Capture (Working Draft)
• Audio Output Devices API (Candidate Recommendation Drafts)

Still in progress topics

• MediaStreamTrack Insertable Media Processing using Streams (Working Drafts)
• Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Extension for WebRTC (Working Drafts)
• Region, Viewport Capture (Working Drafts)
• Capture Handle - Bootstrapping Collaboration when Screensharing (Working Drafts)
• WebRTC Encoded Transform
• The Capture-Handle Actions Mechanism

Get inspired - A glance at use cases to be covered with WebRTC in the future

• File Sharing
• IoT
• Virtual Reality Gaming
• Funny Hats/In-Browser compositing / Voice effect / Captioning / Voice-Face analysis (a.k.a raw media manipulation before sending)
• Cloud Gaming / Game Streaming
• Low latency broadcast with P2P relays
• Decentralized Messaging

How to get infos, engage with or contribute to the WebRTC WG?

Get Info

• WebRTC WG site : https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webrtc
• Monthly video discussion on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@w3c-webrtc (next will be on 21/02/2023)
• Get some WebRTC implementation samples: https://webrtc.github.io/samples/
• Working group repos: https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webrtc/tools

How to get infos, engage with or contribute to the WebRTC WG?

Engage

• W3C Developer Meetup - 12 September 2023 - Sevilla, ES
• WebRTC public mailing list https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webrtc/
• WebRTC Workgroup IRC Channel: https://irc.w3.org/?channels=webrtc

How to get infos, engage with or contribute to the WebRTC WG?

Contribute

• Express yourself on current topics processed by the working group
  • Github issues is the way!
• Propose to lead new topics of interest - Consensus-based decision

==> Membership: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership.html

Get more infos:

W3C Staff

• Carine Bournez | carine@w3.org | @caribou@w3c.social | Github
• Dominique Hazaël-Massieux | dom@w3.org | @dontcallmeDOM@w3c.social | Github

These slides

On myGitHub account

Thx

@rvailleux

https://rvailleux.github.io/presentations/W3C_WebRTC_Workgroup_Update/index.html

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