Faultline has stumbled across a sneak preview that will interest parties in the media transport protocol space. RIST – the Reliable Internet Stream Transport protocol for low-latency contribution in professional video – has added a relay function that injects a multicast flavor into the protocol. Such is the internal enthusiasm over RIST Relay, that there are even suggestions that the new feature has the potential to wipe out and eventually replace WebRTC – the open-source browser project for real-time communications. Our introduction to RIST Relay comes courtesy of a presentation from Adi Rozenberg, CTO and co-founder of video delivery intelligence provider Alvalinks, on the capabilities and use cases of the new RIST Relay function – ahead of its official publication…