Google themselves started an open source & open protocol Open Screen Protocol alternative, as promised, a bit after promising to do so to make a viable device-s

Google themselves started an open source & open protocol Open Screen Protocol alternative, as promised, a bit after promising to do so to make a viable device-side way of doing Presentation API for casting. https://w3c.github.io/openscreenprotocol/explainer.html https://w3c.github.io/openscreenprotocol/explainer.html That explainer is three years old. Their code runs. There's a meeting at every IETF with a little bit of discussion and progress. But, it mostly looks like one very dedicated very awesome engineer giving this project like 10% of his time. I really really like Open Screen Protocol. It has so many of the best things about Chromecast, it has so much of what made Netflixcs DIAL which started this all great: it's a very capable remotely scriptable web browser, that can run in its own. It would hypothetically work fine for a Cast device with cameras or microphones attached. It supports multi-parties connecting to a cast session. There's tons of great stuff possible. It just will not ship. There's no devices based on it. The standards group moves so slow, has so few stakeholders. No one but Google contributes, even though it seems so high value, so interesting, and even though there seems to be no opposition or major issues. Letting Matter show up & eat this really awesome protocol's cheerios is such a sad egg-to-the-face moment.