Rust WebRTC: Data Channels

Work In Progress

This crate is a work in progress. Current work is focused on the development of a pure-Rust SCTP implementation for WebRTC data channels in the webrtc-sctp crate.

Goal

The goal is to develop a WebRTC stack that is implemented in pure Rust as much as possible.

Background

Peer-to-peer networking has been used to good effect over the past 20 years to improve services such as audio/video conferencing, online gaming, and overlay networks, in spite of NAT traversal requiring exotic techniques and reinventing the universe on top of UDP. WebRTC is an IETF standard that bundles together the best-known methods and several pre-existing standards for peer-to-peer networking to provide a common target for interoperability. I think it would be interesting and educational to develop a full WebRTC stack in Rust as a possible alternative to the C/C++ reference implementation. This would not only provide a second option for application developers, but expand the ecosystem of network building blocks implemented in a safe programming language.

License

This crate is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0). See LICENSE-MIT and LICENSE-APACHE for details.

Contributing

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution you intentionally submit for inclusion in the work, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual-licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.