(Fwd) Start of refinement for a draft Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) Working Group charter

Dear members of the WebRTC Working Group,

For your information:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Start of refinement for a draft Web Real-Time Communications 
(WebRTC) Working Group charter
Date:  Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:08:05 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

With this charter review notice, the W3C Team initiates refinement for a 
draft WebRTC Working Group charter:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2026/webrtc-wg.html

The mission of the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group is to 
define client-side APIs to enable Real-Time Communications in Web 
browsers. APIs enabling supplementary functions, such as recording, 
image capture, and screen sharing are also in scope.

We encourage early discussion of this draft charter in this public issue:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/563

Members may use w3c-ac-forum@w3.org (archive [1]) for general 
expressions of interest and support for the charter, but please use the 
public forum for detailed discussion.

Section 4.2 of the Process Document [2] describes activities during 
charter refinement and the role of the Chartering Facilitator of this 
charter to seek consensus among those who provide feedback about it.

The W3C Team estimates that this charter refinement will last until 
approximately 2026-08-25.

If you should have any questions or need further information, feel free 
to contact the Chartering Facilitator, Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>.

This announcement follows sections 4.1 of the Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-initiation

For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/
[2] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-development