On 5/8/2015 9:48 AM, Alissa Cooper wrote:
The IESG has received a liaison statement from ITU-T SG 16 concerning
the netvc chartering effort:
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1399/>. I’ve begun drafting a
response and would like your input before I bring this back to the
IESG. Please suggest edits/additions:
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We are writing in response to the liaison statement received from
ITU-T SG 16 requesting clarification about the goals the proposed
Internet Video Codec (NETVC) working group. The NETVC charter uses the
word “competitive” in the sense of “comparable." That is, the goal of
the working group is to produce a codec whose quality and efficiency
are comparable to the video codecs in widespread use at the time when
the NETVC work is finalized.
I'd wonder if we should reply to their statement about "broad use" being
desirable but not different than other standardization efforts; they
totally ignore the realities of licensing and a major driver for the
effort (perhaps not surprisingly given who they are). (I realize this
is also mentioned indirectly in your following paragraph; perhaps we
don't need to expand on it.)
As the liaison statement notes, there are many concurrent ongoing
efforts to develop video codecs, and the NETVC work would merely be
one additional such effort. We do not view the proposed NETVC work as
harmful for interoperability, but rather as helpful, considering the
fact that at present the licensing environment creates barriers to
full interoperability in many cases.
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