The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) they announced that Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) is now an official web template that enables audio and video communication.
WebRTC may have become the standard in 2021, but supported from popular browsers for years.
At the technical level, WebRTC is a framework that allows developers to add peer-to-peer audio and video chats in their projects.
Those of you who have ever used Facebook Messenger, Discord, or many other communication services to conduct a call video or audio, then you have used WebRTC.
Commenting on today's news, IETF President Alissa Cooper said:
"Voice and video over IP have revolutionized the way people around the world communicate. The integration of these technologies into the Web platform has dramatically expanded their reach, thanks to the close collaboration between the IETF and the W3C to standardize these technologies. WebRTC has enabled billions of people to connect and interact with each other during its pandemic COVID-19, regardless of their device or geographical location. "
With the standardization of WebRTC technology, future projects software who want to implement this feature will have a clear set of instructions they can follow to ensure that their software's WebRTC implementation is properly configured and meets all requirements.