Hi Mo,

On 14/10/16 04:39 PM, Mo Zanaty (mzanaty) wrote:
> I would like to propose another option.
> 
> 4) Add an informational note in the update draft that the codebase on
> opus-codec.org has diverged, and may continue to diverge, from the code in
> RFC 6716, without breaking normative bitstream compatibility.
> 
> This option seems sufficient and lightweight.

Well, I think at this point the opus-codec.org encoder is significantly
better than the one in RFC6716. It seems weird to say "using the RFC
6716 encoder is NOT RECOMMENDED" without having the IETF itself
distribute a better implementation.

Cheers,

        Jean-Marc

> Mo (as individual contributor)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: codec <codec-boun...@ietf.org> on behalf of Jean-Marc Valin
> <jmva...@jmvalin.ca>
> Date: Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 4:13 PM
> To: "codec@ietf.org" <codec@ietf.org>
> Subject: [codec] Fwd:  I-D Action: draft-ietf-codec-opus-update-03.txt
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just uploaded a new version of the Opus draft. It adds fixes for two
> decoder integer wrap-around issues discovered through fuzzing. None of
> them is particularly frightening, but they still needed to be fixed. At
> this point, I do not expect more fixes to this document -- please let me
> know if you think I missed something.
> 
> I'm also realizing just how much the "current" codebase on
> opus-codec.org has come to differ from the code in RFC6716. This
> includes many many fixes and improvements to the encoder and fixed-point
> decoder. Since they are not normative bitstream changes, they are not
> included in this update draft. I think it would be nice to update the
> IETF "reference implementation" of Opus to reflect the improvements.
> That being said, I'm not sure what's the best way to do that. I can
> think of several options:
> 
> 1) An (informational?) RFC with updated based64 tarball containing the
> newest version
> 2) A tarball of the new version uploaded as meeting material like the
> original testvectors (where would we link to it?)
> 3) Somehow mirroring the opus-coder.org downloads on the IETF website
> 
> There's probably other options too. Any thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>       Jean-Marc
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [codec] I-D Action: draft-ietf-codec-opus-update-03.txt
> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 11:43:24 -0700
> From: internet-dra...@ietf.org
> To: i-d-annou...@ietf.org
> CC: codec@ietf.org
> 
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Internet Wideband Audio Codec of the IETF.
> 
>         Title           : Updates to the Opus Audio Codec
>         Authors         : Jean-Marc Valin
>                           Koen Vos
>       Filename        : draft-ietf-codec-opus-update-03.txt
>       Pages           : 9
>       Date            : 2016-09-01
> 
> Abstract:
>    This document addresses minor issues that were found in the
>    specification of the Opus audio codec in RFC 6716 [RFC6716].
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-codec-opus-update/
> 
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-codec-opus-update-03
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-codec-opus-update-03
> 
> 
> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of
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