Another Working Group is looking at its work plan for the upcoming year: the WebRTC Working Group. That group is responsible for a series of specification that enables p2p real-time audio/video/data exchange on the Web.
The @w3payments Working Group released yesterday its roadmap of work for 2018 lists.w3.org/Archives/Public… . This is the group developing new features to facilitate and improve payments in Web browsers.
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Two main components of that series enable access to mic and cameras w3.org/TR/mediacapture-strea… and then provide the building blocks to establish a real-time connection between a browser and another peer (possibly another browser) w3.org/TR/webrtc/
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These 2 APIs are already adopted across all modern browsers, although there are still quite a few incompatibilities among them. caniuse.com/#search=webrtc
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A lot of the group's efforts will be to push for convergence of browser implementations via increased attention to its test suite github.com/w3c/web-platform-…
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Given the peer-to-peer nature of the tech, there is even a separate dedicated system to identify specific bugs when a given browser tries to connect with another specific one github.com/webrtc/KITE
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The group has also a few additional APIs to enable screen sharing, recording, quality monitoring - these too will need attention for greater adoption and interoperability. w3.org/2011/04/webrtc/
Jan 25, 2018 · 4:10 PM UTC
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The focus of the most recent discussion though is on the evolution of the real-time connection API lists.w3.org/Archives/Public…
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