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Sean DuBois <sean@pion.ly> Sat, 19 March 2022 18:57 UTC

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:57:37 -0400
From: Sean DuBois <sean@pion.ly>
To: Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org>
Cc: Stuart Cheshire <cheshire=40apple.com@dmarc.ietf.org>, hackathon@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [hackathon] Open Source Software and network protocol standards
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On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 03:03:05PM +0100, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-3-19, at 0:47, Stuart Cheshire <cheshire=40apple.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> > Can you think of cases where an Open Source Software implementation clearly helped a networking protocol become successful? Was that Open Source implementation driven by the people (or companies) actively working on the protocol standard? Or was it created by an independent community following the standards development process?
>
> QUIC qualifies, I think. Almost all the implementations (including the initial Google-proprietary version) are open source, and for the IETF version, implementations and standardization were tightly coupled. We did combined WG interims plus interop events six times a year for several years.
>
> Thanks,
> Lars
>

WebRTC

As a WebRTC user in ~2013 it was only useful because of Open Source
SFUs. Building your own SFU wasn't something smaller companies could do.

janus[0] and mediasoup[1] are good examples. The authors were
independent and involved with standards.

[0] https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway
[1] https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup

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