RTCQuicTransport & RTCQuicStream

Category: WebRTC
Type: New or changed feature
Status: In developer trial (Behind a flag) (Chrome 73)
Intent stage: None

Summary

A standalone API using the QUIC transport protocol to exchange arbitrary data with remote peers. This provides a generic multiple-way transport that doesn't use the full PeerConnection stack designed for media purposes. The base API is shared with WebTransport. The difference is the RTCQuicTransport is P2P and uses ICE. For discussion on the webtransport see: https://discourse.wicg.io/t/webtransport-proposal/3508 https://github.com/WICG/web-transport

Standards & signals

Specification: https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-quic/
Firefox: Positive
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Positive — Game developers voiced support at W3C game developers conference: https://www.w3.org/2018/12/games-workshop/report.html#webtransport
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=868068

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12oNEcgjAjQERMvATCVCWpoTxNU47NRUzxCK5g0FysTk/edit?usp=sharing

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