Re: [rtcweb] opportunity cost (was MTI video codec, charter, RFC 3929)

+1

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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Göran Eriksson AP <
goran.ap.eriksson@ericsson.com> wrote:

>  +1
>
> 14 nov 2013 kl. 00:06 skrev "Bernard Aboba" <bernard_aboba@hotmail.com>:
>
>   Keith Drage said:
>
> "Agree
>
> I am at the point where I would prefer to spend the meeting cycles getting
> things we can agree on, rather than where we seem to be at the moment with
> an issue where there are two clear camps and no real sign of a compromise.
>
> Ultimately the market will decide (and some parts of it probably have
> already decided - which is probably the reason for no progress).
>
> Keith"
>
> [BA] Well said. With most of the RTCWEB WG drafts either having completed
> WGLC or being candidates for WGLC by the end of the year,  with some elbow
> grease it seems very possible to move the bulk of the documents to IETF
> last call within a few months at most.   Polishing the RTCWEB document set
> would yield multiple benefits.  Not only would it get us closer to the goal
> of standardizing the WebRTC protocol stack, but also might well turn up an
> issue or two we haven't thought enough about. Also, once we move the
> protocol stack further along, we'll have more cycles to spend on
> operational issues (like monitoring concerns discussed in XRBLOCK), which
> currently limit the ability to deploy WebRTC at very large scale.
> Unfortunately, we've been spending so much time on the MTI video codec
> debate that less glamorous (but ultimately much more important) engineering
> work is being neglected.
>
> This is all by way of seconding your point that there is a real
> opportunity cost to the never-ending, energy sapping MTI codec discussion.
> Personally, I'd much rather redirect the work of the Internet Engineering
> Task Force RTCWEB WG away from amateur lawyering toward engineering where
> we actually have expertise and could potentially make a difference.
>
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