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extend scope of the wg to allow real time and p2p communications
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<h2>Scope</h2>
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<p>The WebTransport Working Group, in collaboration with the <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webtrans/about/">IETF WebTransport Working Group</a> develops APIs that enable Web developers to make use of these new network capabilities, including possible fallback mechanisms to handle scenarios when a QUIC connection cannot be established.</p>
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<p>These capabilities are expected to be useful in a wide variety of contexts where network performance has perceivable impacts on user experience, such as media streaming or cloud gaming.</p>
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<p>The working group is also considering incubating mechanisms for peer-to-peer capability.</p>
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<p>These capabilities are expected to be useful in a wide variety of contexts where network performance has perceivable impacts on user experience, such as media streaming or cloud gaming and real-time communications.</p>
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<p>This specification defines a set of ECMAScript APIs to allow data to be sent and received between a browser and server, implementing pluggable protocols underneath with common APIs on top.</p>
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<p class="draft-status"><b>Draft state:</b> <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/webtransport/">W3C Working Draft</a></p>
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<p class="milestone"><b>Expected completion:</b> Q2 2025</p>
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<p><b>Adopted Draft:</b> <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2023/WD-webtransport-20231220/">https://www.w3.org/TR/2023/WD-webtransport-20231220/</a>, 2023-12-20</p>
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<p class="milestone"><b>Expected completion:</b> Q2 2026</p>
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<p><b>Adopted Draft:</b> <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/WD-webtransport-20251203/">https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/WD-webtransport-20251203/</a>, 2025-12-03</p>
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<p><b>Exclusion Draft:</b> <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-webtransport-20210504/">https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-webtransport-20210504/</a>, 2021-05-04</p>
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<p>Exclusion period began 2021-05-04; Exclusion period ended 2021-10-01.</p>
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<p><b>Exclusion Draft Charter:</b></p> <a href="https://www.w3.org/2020/12/webtransport-wg-charter.html">https://www.w3.org/2020/12/webtransport-wg-charter.html</a>
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<p>Note that the initial version of this deliverable is limited to client-server connections.
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<p>Charter scope extended to allow peer-to-peer and real-time media transmission use cases to be considered.
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