From the broadcasting industry perspective, WebRTC is not “complete”. It can’t be implemented once and forgotten, like many other protocols before. It lacks a standard signalling protocol to go along. From the web industry perspective, it’s a wanted feature, and it did allow the protocol to be used for vastly different use cases than originally anticipated or designed for. That situation has been frozen in place for many years, as neither the web community (we have what we want), nor the broadcasting community (who needs realtime anyway, VOD will rule forever), seem to be interested in jumping in and filling the gap. Until COVID-19 that is ….

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