I'm not convinced this tells us anything about market adoption. There's
nothing new here IMO other than there is now a plugin demo to go along
with the old CU-RTC Web proposal. The folks involved in this demo are
still very active members of the working groups defining WebRTC.
For those who haven't been following this story in the press: Microsoft
basically coded up a demo using plugins to show off CU-RTC Web (an
alternative, lower level API to PeerConnection -- one of the major
building blocks for WebRTC) and is trying to re-argue the same points in
the press now that they argued several months ago to the working group
with no new news, information, or insights. Last time we discussed this
in the working group, several of us said that there were some
interesting ideas in CU-RTC Web that we may want to look at as an
extention to WebRTC after our work defining PeerConnection is complete
(or at least a version 1 of the spec is complete). In short, CU-RTC Web
didn't enable any use cases that PeerConnection didn't handle; the Peer
Connection API would be more easily understood and used than the CU-RTC
Web API by the typical web/app developer; and the SDP ugliness that
Microsoft complains about (which is hidden from web/app developers
using the API) also potentially eases interop with legacy SIP equipment,
which many working group members think could be useful in promoting
adoption of WebRTC.
I'm not looking to start a discussion of PeerConnection vs CU-RTC Web
here. The working group mailing lists are the best place for any
discussion like that. I just wanted to provide some of the
counterargument to the argument Microsoft makes in the article below.
Having said all that, anything that inspires the working group members
to move a little faster in discussions and decision making is a good
thing IMO. :-)
-Maire
On 1/20/2013 1:31 PM, Adam Roach wrote:
Not good news for market adoption...
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/microsoft-goes-its-own-way-with-web-audiovideo-spec-despite-w3c-rebuff/
/a
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