Does WebRTC need a change in governance?
Is it time to change the governance of WebRTC in order to keep it growing and flourishing?
Read MoreVideo isn't like voice and will never be.
Here's a question from Quora than I answered some months ago: What's keeping telephony API vendors from adding video?
Twilio, Voxeo, Telesocial and others offer simple, easy, scalable, and affordable APIs for web developers. What's in the way of offering video chat/conferencing/messaging APIs along with the audio chat/conferencing/messaging APIs?
My answer at the time?
Telephony API vendors rely on circuit switching for the actual delivery of the service: they use the telco for actually providing their service, wrapping it up with APIs that enables developers to build their own use cases.
They might (or might not) add VoIP integration, where they can offer it through the browser, Flash or a mobile app - in all such cases, it will use gateways to connect back to PSTN (=circuit switching).
How things have changed…
If you are looking for video APIs then you already have TokBox and AddLive. Probably a few more for different use cases.
Now that WebRTC is happening, a lot of entrepreneurs are trying to figure out how to handle video processing: point to point is relatively easy with WebRTC out of the box, but then many use cases require broadcasting, recording, multipoint video conversations. For these, the easiest way is to use a specialized solution – and this is where video APIS come into the picture.
With demand – supply will come.
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Is it time to change the governance of WebRTC in order to keep it growing and flourishing?
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