[kwindla]

I agree that RTP over QUIC [1] is closer to what we'd build today if we were starting from scratch than WebRTC is. (Partly benefiting from the lessons learned getting to WebRTC 1.0, of course.)

It's worth noting that QUIC is also a very complex specification and is only going to get more complex as it continues through the standardization process. In parallel, there's ongoing work on the next generation of the WebRTC spec. [2] (WebRTC-NV also adds complexity. Nothing ever gets simpler.)

My guess is that we're at least three years away from being able to use anything other than HLS and WebRTC in production. And -- pessimistically because I've worked on video for a long time and seen over and over that new stuff always take _forever_ to bake and get adoption, maybe that's going to be more like 10 years.

[1] https://github.com/mengelbart/rtp-over-quic-draft [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc-nv-use-cases/