I am not active in RTCWeb, but I have been discussing the deadlock on a
mandatory-to-implement video codec with a few people.
On Dec 2, 2013, at 4:28 AM, Jari Arkko <jari(_dot_)arkko(_at_)piuha(_dot_)net>
wrote:
However, the WG process is allowed to "fail" (if you can call it that) and
not standardise something that we do not find consensus on. We've been
through this many times in the past, and took various actions. Sometime it
did lead to considerable market split and lack of interoperability, sometimes
a practical unified reality emerged from what the vendors did, sometimes we
learned to live with multiple choices, sometimes we returned to the question
sometime later and found a standard. It has usually not been the end of the
world.
A big +1 to this part of Jari's message. The IETF has seen more situations like
this than we have seen "we'll vote, but just this once".
--Paul Hoffman