[RTW] [dispatch] The charter formerly know as RTC-WEB take 3

[Henry Sinnreich]

+1

Thanks, Henry


On 1/18/11 8:27 AM, "Adam Roach" <adam at nostrum.com> wrote:

> On 1/18/11 07:43, Jan 18, Peter Musgrave wrote:
>> I share the concern expressed by many on the list that including selection of
>> baseline CODECs (audio and video) is something which will consume enormous
>> energy and FWIW I don't see it as necessary for the "plumbing" part of the
>> problem to which the IETF is best suited to provide solutions.
> 
> As I mentioned earlier, baseline codecs are far more critical for this
> effort than for non-real-time web browsing. So someone needs to choose one.
> 
> It is my understanding that the overall work in this area will be split
> between the IETF and the W3C, so the decision must be made by one of
> those two organizations.
> 
> The W3C could not come to a decision for video codecs when deliberating
> HTML5, and there is no reason to believe that running the same exercise
> in that forum with substantially the same participants will yield a
> different result.
> 
> What makes a substantive between the W3C and the IETF in this particular
> regard is the procedure documented in RFC3929, which  _guarantees_ that
> a decision can be made (as long as the working group agrees that the
> decision must be made). I hope it doesn't come to that, but IETF
> procedures virtually ensure that we can't deadlock on a decision like
> the W3C can.
> 
> /a
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