They cooperate on the same stack (webrtc.org) which deals with audio/video processing. Networking, JavaScript bindings, etc (the part exposed to the outside world where standardization matters) are separate. This ironically means that interoperability isn't a given, took a while to achieve, and was worthy of a press release.
Don't confuse a WebRTC implementation with the Cisco supplied H.264 codec binary and MPEG LA coverage. You get H.264 support in Mozilla & Chrome via this mechanism.
Thought of the same thing. Anyone know?
There are a few different layers to the WebRTC stack. I believe they use the lower layer which does the video and audio processing. But they don't use the higher layers from which do ICE, SCTP, and SDP.