- Dec. 95: BOF at WWW4: "Towards a Real-Time Multimedia Web"
- Mai 96: Developer's Day session at WWW5
- Oct. 96: W3C Workshop
- 19/20 March 97: First meeting W3C SYMM WG
- Jun '97: First W3C working draft of format specification
- Sep '97: Finish revised draft
- Dec '97: Bake-off between implementations
- Two clients, two servers
- Independent organisations
- Converters count
