Re: Call for Consensus (CfC) on Transferrable MediaStreamTracks (Section 5 of mediacapture-extensions)

I support Section 5 of mediacapture-extensions

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 6:10 AM Youenn Fablet <youenn@apple.com> wrote:

> I support Section 5 of mediacapture-extensions.
>
> On 7 Sep 2021, at 05:02, Bernard Aboba <Bernard.Aboba@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) on Transferrable MediaStreamTracks,
> which are described in Section 5 of the Mediacapture-Extensions document
> (currently an editors draft without WG consensus):
>
> https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-extensions/#transferable-mediastreamtrack
>
> In response, please state one of the following:
>
>    - I support Section 5 of mediacapture-extensions
>    - I object to Section 5 of mediacapture-extensions due to issues filed
>    in open bug <#number>
>
> The CfC will end on September 27, 2021
>
> Bernard
>
> For the Chairs
>
> Process explanation
>
> Extensions documents such as WebRTC-Extensions and Mediacapture-Extensions
> exist to incubate material that may eventually be folded into future
> iterations of existing documents (WebRTC-PC 1.0 and MediaCapture & Streams,
> respectively).
>
> However, as these Extension documents have been Editor's Drafts for
> considerable periods of time without issuance of a Working Group Draft,
> they cannot be considered to represent the consensus of the WEBRTC WG.
>
> It was pointed out that this situation could result in "late surprises"
> (e.g. controversy about incorporation of portions of an extension document
> into the main document at some future date, potentially long after the
> material was first incorporated into the extension document, by which time
> the controversial elements may already be in use by applications).
>
> To avoid such a situation, it is desirable to determine WG consensus early
> on significant aspects of the Extensions documents, so that issues can be
> raised and potentially addressed prior to implementation.
>
> In this instance, changes to enable Transferrable MediaStreamTracks were
> included in merged PR 30 which can be found here:
> https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-extensions/pull/30
>
> The entire text (lines 350 - 420) can be viewed here:
>
> https://github.com/youennf/mediacapture-extensions/blob/ffbb6836d4a5fef4abef5d83fb15bec1abc65fbd/index.html
>
> Note that since a CfC has not been run on the entire
> Mediacapture-extensions document, this CfC only applies to Transferrable
> MediaStreamTracks and not to other aspects which may be covered by
> subsequent CfCs. It therefore does not bear on the overall WG consensus for
> Mediacapture-Extensions.
>
>
>

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