Proposal to abandon work on “Capture Handle - Bootstrapping collaboration when screen sharing”

The chairs have considered the proposal to abandon WEBRTC WG work on “Capture Handle - Bootstrapping collaboration when screen sharing”, which was presented at the January 17 WEBRTC WG virtual interim. We have concluded that there is no reason to issue a “Call for Consensus” (CfC). CfCs are generally issued to confirm consensus. Since the chairs at their discretion have already determined that no consensus exists for the proposal as currently formulated, we have concluded that issuing a CfC for stopping work in the WEBRTC WG is unnecessary.


A Working Group’s scope of work is established in its charter, not in any single published document. Screen capture APIs remain in scope of this WG.


A WG can discontinue a document its members no longer have any interest in working on, in which case the document is frozen and remains. But this does not fit here, as the WG agrees the use cases are valid, and disagreements seem to be solely over final API shapes to standardize. The WG has heard no argument that the use cases are unimportant or that APIs to solve them should be stopped or unshipped for lack of interest.


A WG can also send back to incubation a document it feels the WG is not ready to approach. But this also does not seem to fit here since APIs have shipped and general consensus exists for solving the problem the API solves.


The chairs will monitor developments going forward.

Bernard

For the Chairs