Technical Summary
This document gives an overview and context of a protocol suite
intended for use with real-time applications that can be deployed in
browsers - "real time communication on the Web".
This document is an Applicability Statement - it does not itself
specify any protocol, but specifies which other specifications WebRTC
compliant implementations are supposed to follow.
Working Group Summary
The document did not, itself, have an particularly controversial
aspects, although some of the referenced documents did. There
was some debate among the WG chairs regarding whether sending
this document to the IESG before all of the documents it referenced
had also been sent on. Ultimately, they decided to move it forward
once the WG considered it finished. It is worth noting that the
documents on which it relies are broadly considered stable at this
time.
Document Quality
The general WebRTC protocols that are referenced by this document
are implemented to varying degrees by several major browsers
(including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, and preview editions of
Safari). Further, many non-browser implementations (as that term
is defined in this document) exist, including the widely-deployed
Asterisk PBX, Cisco's WebEx, and the MeetEcho service used for
remote participation in IETF meetings.
Personnel
Sean Turner is the document shepherd. Alissa Cooper was the
responsible AD prior to IETF 98. The current responsible AD is
Adam Roach.
IESG Note
This document forms a portion of RFC Editor Cluster 238.