WebRTC means real-time communications between browsers, in particular sound and video communications, on a peer-to-peer, page-to-page basis. It comprises browser code that Google open sourced back in June 2011 and which implements an emerging standard API being developed co-operatively by web standards bodies the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Their efforts derive from the work on HTML 5 and related technologies carried out by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).
From The Register.
Wow!
ReplyDeleteMy initial reaction would be that it's another nail in the coffin of communications service regulation... if indeed this sort of regulation in the IP space is not already dead.
ReplyDeleteWhat will be the implications for intermediary liability for third party content? If I understand this correctly, individuals will be able to communicate between browsers, in real time for sound and video, on a peer-to-peer, page-to-page basis and exchange files more efficiently.
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