Re: [codec] WG Review: Internet Wideband Audio Codec (codec)

[Joel Jaeggli <[e-mail]>]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> But I don't think we can say that relevent members of the IETF community
> do *not* have the competence to work on an audio codec or that they are
> *not* willing to listen to technically competent input from any source
> when it comes to codec technologies. Indeed, the two BoFs at Stockholm
> and Hiroshima would lead, I think, to the opposite conclusion: the
> people who want to do this work appear to be competent (they have
> already developed codecs like Speex, CELT, SILK, IPMR, BV16, and BV32)
> and to be quite committed to rough consensus and running code, we have
> some precedent for doing work of this kind within the IETF (e.g., RFC
> 3951), several longtime IETF participants have experience with digital
> signal processing and similar technologies, a codec working group would
> attract new participants with relevant areas of expertise, and people at
> the BoFs appeared to be quite open to input from the IETF community or
> any interested individual.

+1

This is work we've done before and there seems to be no particular
reason that it should not be done here again.