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Re: [rtcweb] RTCWeb Terminology

"Ravindran Parthasarathi" <pravindran@sonusnet.com> Tue, 25 October 2011 04:34 UTC

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From: Ravindran Parthasarathi <pravindran@sonusnet.com>
To: Adrian Georgescu <ag@ag-projects.com>, Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan@acmepacket.com>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: public-webrtc-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-webrtc-request@w3.org]
>On Behalf Of Adrian Georgescu
>Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 10:31 PM
>To: Hadriel Kaplan
>Cc: Cullen Jennings; rtcweb@ietf.org; public-webrtc@w3.org
>Subject: Re: [rtcweb] RTCWeb Terminology
>
>WebRTC sounds great!
>
>Adrian
>
>On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Cullen Jennings wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I don't think there is an answer to this yet so I guess we need to
>figure it out.  I'm ore concerned about the long term explanation to
>people outside W3C or IETF. Hadriel, with you marketing hat on, you
have
>any suggestions of what we should call the whole thing?
>>
>> Web 4.0.  ;)
>>
>> I asked a couple other folks and the consensus seems to be: "WebRTC"
>for the whole thing.
>>
>> The rationale is that it's still the Web but with native real-time-
>communication support, as opposed to real-time-communication but with
>web support.  For example if you wrote a book about how to write Web-
>apps for it, you would probably use the term "WebRTC" in the book
title.
>Another rationale was that it follows the naming scheme for WebM and
>WebP.
>>
>> For the API, the consensus was it would be confusing to people if we
>weren't consistent with W3C docs.
>>
>> So I propose the following:
>>
>> WebRTC: the whole shebang
>> WebRTC API: the JS<->Browser API.
>>
>> -hadriel
>> p.s. personally I've gotten used to the term "RTCWeb", but it may be
>because of my IETF focus rather than W3C/Web focus.
>>
>>
>
>

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