Re: [whatwg/streams] Explainer for proposed stream changes related to VideoFrame processing (PR #1193)

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> +## Principles
+
+The envisioned changes to the streams specification could look like the following:
+*   Add a new 'transfer' type to `ReadableStream`, `WritableStream` and `TransformStream`.
+    For streams that do not have the 'transfer' type, nothing changes.
+*   Streams of the 'transfer' type can only manipulate Transferable or Serializable objects.
+    If a non Transferable or Serializable object is enqueued or written, the object is ignored as if it was never enqueued/written.
+*   If a Transferable object is enqueueud/written in a 'transfer' type `ReadableStreamDefaultController`, `TransformStreamDefaultController`
+    or `WritableStreamDefaultWriter`, create a copy of the object using StructuredSerializeWithTransfer/StructuredDeserializeWithTransfer.
+    Proceed with the regular stream algorithm by using the copy of the object instead of the object itself.
+*   If a Serializable object is enqueueud/written in a 'transfer' type `ReadableStreamDefaultController`, `TransformStreamDefaultController`
+    or `WritableStreamDefaultWriter`, create a copy of the object using StructuredSerialize/StructuredDeserialize.
+    Proceed with the regular stream algorithm by using the copy of the object instead of the object itself.
+*   Introduce a WhatWG streams 'close-able' concept. An object that is 'close-able' defines closing steps.
+    For instance `VideoFrame` closing steps could be defined using https://www.w3.org/TR/webcodecs/#close-videoframe.
+    `ArrayBuffer` closing steps could be defined using https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-detacharraybuffer.

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