Webcam Sharing

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Status

Webcam Sharing
Stage	Definition
Status	In progress
Release target	Firefox 10
Health	OK
Status note	Planning and scoping phase - talking about wanted interaction and features, potential privacy and security issues

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Team

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Directly Responsible Individual	Chris Blizzard
Lead engineer	Ralph Giles
Security lead	Randell Jesup
Privacy lead	Randell Jesup
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	`
UX lead	Jennifer Boriss
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Open issues/risks

- What features should be included in the first, second, and third phase? - Can screen sharing and co-browsing easily hook into the UI? - How can we best protect user privacy? - How is this related to in-browser chat? - Could we have browser-owned buttons that could be added to the page (like "Call" and "End") that would both initiate the call and enable cameras/mics to prevent spoofing and keep user experience branding similar?

Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Firefox needs to allow users to communicate using their microphone and webcam. These features are vital for complex online interaction, and providing the tools for developers to easily use them will improve their capability and the experience of their users. Just as Firefox provides controls for open video, we should provide the means for users to share their webcam and microphone feed with sites and with other uses. It is especially important to add this functionality to Firefox as in-browser chat is being developed concurrently.

2. Users & use cases

- Allowing a website to take a photo of a user for an avatar - Feeding webcam footage to a site for video recording and editing - Video conferencing - Chatting to other users while playing a cooperative game

3. Dependencies

- In-browser chat

4. Requirements

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Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Feature details

Priority	P2
Rank	999
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Team status notes

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Platform side tracking: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebRTC