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

"Richard Shockey" <richard@shockey.us> Tue, 05 January 2010 01:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [codec] WG Review: Internet Wideband Audio Codec (codec)
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+1 Emphatically 

If people want to do the work, why not let them try.  

If they cannot succeed then shut it down. 

That does bring up the more sensitive subject that the IETF as a whole needs
to consider which is when can it be determined that a WG is not succeeding.
That is a much much longer thread. 

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: ietf-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
>  Of Sam Hartman
>  Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 5:41 PM
>  To: Patrik Fältström
>  Cc: codec@ietf.org; Phillip Hallam-Baker; iesg@ietf.org;
>  kre@munnari.oz.au; ietf@ietf.org
>  Subject: Re: WG Review: Internet Wideband Audio Codec (codec)
>  
>  I've been thinking about the codec issue for a while.  I think it is
>  really desirable for the IETF to charter this group.  I don't think
>  the
>  charter should prohibit the working group from selecting some existing
>  codec nor should it prohibit doing new work in this space.
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