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Wasn't WebRTC 1.1/ORTC supposed to fix the mess by 1) modernizing the API by making it object-oriented and 2) separating the new stuff from the legacy cruft? Whatever happened to that?

https://www.infoq.com/news/2014/08/ortc-webrtc

I'm surprised it's not ready yet. I wonder if they are just waiting for AV1/NETVC specs to be finalized.

I wish we got a webtorrent spec, too, but with the MPAA now on the W3C board and the majority of the W3C board seemingly being in league with the MPAA now, it doesn't seem likely anytime soon.




Microsoft Edge implements ORTC. The problem is, the IETF RTCWEB working group was/is dominated by players from the SIP world who wanted to re-use their existing code. The argument was that WEBRTC devs would never need to touch the SDP, and all specification work done for SDP would have to be repeated for any other approach.

Of course, today's WEBRTC SDP, RTP, and RTCP is quite incompatible to existing SIP platforms (which usually dont support trickle ICE, RTP/RTCP bundling etc).




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