design-reviews#1250: Incubation: WebRTC Diagnostic Logging

#1250: Incubation: WebRTC Diagnostic Logging

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Jul 27, 2026

Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/webrtc-diagnostic-logging/blob/main/explainer.md

The explainer

Includes the information requested by the Explainer Explainer.
Follows the Web Platform Design Principles.
Includes or links to answers to the Security/Privacy Questionnaire.
Describes user research you did to validate the problem and/or design.

Where and by whom is the work is being done?

GitHub repo: https://github.com/wicg/webrtc-diagnostic-logging/
Link to spec: https://wicg.github.io/webrtc-diagnostic-logging/
Primary contacts:
- @guidou, Google
Organization/project driving the design: Google
This work is being funded by: Google
Incubation and standards groups that have discussed the design:
- WebRTC Working Group: minutes, video
Standards group(s) that you expect to discuss and/or adopt this work when it's ready: WebRTC Working Group

Feedback so far

Multi-stakeholder feedback:
- Chromium comments: Positive
- Mozilla comments: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1436, also WG minutes and video
- WebKit comments: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/699
Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this design: Only minor issues so far.

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Discussions

Discussed Aug 17, 2026 (See Github)

Lola: Does not really look architectural, and it’s only about logging.

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Discussed Sep 21, 2026 (See Github)

Lola: I reviewed this 3 weeks ago. I left some internal comments for us to consider. I had mostly editorial feedback at this point. There's some contradictory statements between the explainer and the spec and the spec should have normative language preventing things from being exposed. The conformance section points to RFC2119, but then they say that they are in lowercase. This could be confusing.

Luke: the things in this API are somewhat noble... there is no other API where the API may or may not do something. This might not be a JavaScript userland problem.

Lola: I don't disagree. WebRTC is somewhat unique and does things that other web platform features don't do. However, we should draft some comment.

Marcos: Lola, that quirky thing is also across HTML and WHATWG specs. There’s another RFC that allows that. But definitely quirky.

Lola: If you can find that RFC, that would be interesting!