Re: Towards a new charter for the WebRTC Working Group

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 2:23 PM Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> What are the plans for the protocol pieces for the new items?  I
> haven't seen any plans - or internet-drafts - for those, and the bulk
> of the work for some of these items is protocol work.


What do you mean by "protocol"?  QUIC is the protocol.  Do you mean the
protocol on top of QUIC?  That's defined by the application using the QUIC
streams, not by the W3C or IETF.   The app can do whatever it wants.


> For instance, I
> can understand why the group might choose not to rely on SDP for
> negotiating new features, which leads to some API work, but the bulk
> of the QUIC datachannels work is in defining protocols, not the API.
>
>
We provide access to the QUIC protocol from the API.  Everything on top of
that is up to the application.  So there is no protocol to define that the
browser need know about.


> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Our current Working Group charter is set to expire end of March:
> >   https://www.w3.org/2015/07/webrtc-charter.html
> >
> > Given the time needed to get a new charter reviewed and adopted, the
> > Chairs and Staff Contacts have started working on a propose updated
> > charter in a github repo:
> >   https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-charter
> >
> > The results of these updates are visible at:
> >   http://w3c.github.io/webrtc-charter/webrtc-charter.html
> >
> > The detailed diffs can be seen at:
> >
> >
> https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2015%2F07%2Fwebrtc-charter.html&doc2=http%3A%2F%2Fw3c.github.io%2Fwebrtc-charter%2Fwebrtc-charter.html
> >
> > Many of the changes in the charter come from alignment with the W3C
> > charter template [1], or reflect changes in the external groups we're
> > expected to coordinate with. The two main substantive changes we propose
> > are:
> >   * addition of deliverables for QUIC, ICE Extension, DSCP marking
> >
> >   * adoption of the more "permissive" license for our documents (W3C
> > Software and Document license instead of our current W3C Document
> > license) - the goal is to align with other W3C Working Groups, and
> > facilitate exchanges with Community Groups
> >
> > The goal is for this document to serve as a starting point for
> > discussion in the group - once the group agrees on the content of its
> > new charter, we will then bring it to W3C management and the W3C
> > Advisory Committee for review, aiming to get eventual W3C Director's
> > approval.
> >
> > We will discuss this on our next call in January, and we welcome
> > discussions either on the list or in the github repository in the
> meantime.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dom
> >
> > 1. https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/charter-template.html
> >
>
>