WebRTC in IE?
A blog post and some tweets from a Microsoft developer conference seemed to suggest that Microsoft is making progress on WebRTC in IE (at least in the context of running Lync without a plugin). There appear to be no details on whether it is CU-WebRTC, vanilla WebRTC, or something else entirely.
Hype Recheck
While Cisco continued to re-blog last week’s “The Reality of WebRTC… All Hype?” article several times, Tsahi Levent-Levi posted a rebuttal stating:
WebRTC is the most disruptive technology in VoIP to date. Not because there’s new technology in it, but because it enables new use cases to be implemented.
Security and WebRTC
Recent news spawned a discussion about WebRTC security and privacy. Chrome WebRTC Team Lead Justin Uberti shared a post, written by Mozilla employee Adam Roach, that provides a nice overview of the issues: “WebRTC: Security and Confidentiality”. Cullen Jennings, Cisco employee and RTCWeb co-chair, was one of many contributors to a recently written report outlining the dangers of adding wiretap endpoints to Internet services.