#3335·webrtc

WARP tracking issue

Author: fippoCreated Dec 31, 2025Updated Apr 6, 2026

Summary

WARP is an acronym (coined by @juberti) that stands for "WebRTC Abridged Roundtrip Protocol" which cuts down the amount of round-trip involved in establishing a WebRTC connection from 6 to 2.

IETF drafts:

The pion implementation spans multiple repos and PRs which are tracked here. One part is SNAP which skips two round trips in opening the datachannel:

The second (and more complicated) part is SPED, embedding the DTLS handshake in the STUN/ICE connection establishment. This is going to span multiple PRs in several repos:

Last but not least

with me, this is going to be a bit of a mess