Re: [codec] Individuals and hats

Hi,
I do not appreciate your comments since it accuses people of behaviors which
you cannot prove. I can say on the same path that there are people who do
not care about how it is done but they want a "good enough" codec that will
be royalty free developed by the IETF.

Personally I am not involved in MPEG work at all. I had past experience with
standardizing of G.719 which is a royalty free codec and I can also point
that Anisse was also part of this work.

Now for the codec work. My view is that if there is a claim that the codec
has better quality than other codec it need to be tested using well
established procedures that has been used to compare codec quality. There
was a request from the people who had experience with codec quality testing
to produce a proposal for test procedures and when they did they are
attacked for their motivation by some (I want to note that there are some
discussions about the proposal itself).

I do not mind if the WG will decide to remove the quality claim and continue
with developing  a royalty free codec with "good enough" quality not saying
it is better than other codecs. 

I just think that it should be clear from the charter and requirements what
is the purpose of the work. 

Regards
Roni Even
With individual hat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: codec-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:codec-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
> Of Thorvald Natvig
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:37 AM
> To: codec@ietf.org
> Subject: [codec] Individuals and hats
> 
> 
> I see from cursory googling that there is an overlap between some of
> the
> proponents of the impossible test plan and developers of MPEG USAC,
> which seems likely to become one of the most patent encumbered codecs
> in
> history.
> 
> There seems to be clear royalty-based gain to be had for individuals
> and
> companies if this workgroup should fail. Everyone in the IETF wears the
> hat of an individual, but it might be better to be upfront about the
> motivations for helping the workgroup succeed when there is such a
> clear
> conflict of interest.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Thorvald
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