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Why WebRTC is the way it is.

Talkat FOSDEM 2021 · on Saturday, 2021-02-06· at 14:10· D.rtc· [web-platform]

speaker

name:Tim Panton

links:none on file

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2021/D.rtc/tims_webrtc_history.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/tims_webrtc_history/attachments/slides/4604/export/events/attachments/tims_webrtc_history/slides/4604/webrtchistory

summary

A first‑hand retrospective explaining why WebRTC evolved the way it did, naming specific technologies and design areas such as RTP, SDP signalling, the DataChannel protocol choice, codecs, encryption decisions, and the P2P versus client–server tradeoff. The speaker draws on early involvement in standardisation and API implementation to trace starting points, key forks in decisions, and mistakes that shaped WebRTC’s APIs and architecture.

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