Re: [rtcweb] Video codecs and the staw poll

[Simon Pietro Romano <[e-mail]>]

+1

Simon

Cullen Jennings <[e-mail]> ha scritto:
>
>Dear WG,
>
>After reviewing the poll results found here:
>http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/pdfWd2PIhOY9y.pdf
>the chairs concludes that the working group still believes that an MTI
>is required for the WebRTC ecology to develop.    There are a number of
>options which did not garner significant support; essentially only
>options 1, 2, 3, 4 seem to have enough support that they might be the
>eventual basis of working group consensus.  The chairs do not view the
>other options as having sufficient support to warrant further working
>group activity or discussion.
>
>There is no obvious leader between VP8 and H.264, however, nor obvious
>support for selecting both.  Each has similar numbers of supporting
>positions and objections, and both have the support of well over half
>the participants in the straw poll.  Given that, we are no closer to
>being able to choose between them at this time.  
>
>The chairs therefore propose tabling the discussion of a mandatory to
>implement video codec until about 6 week before the start of the IETF
>91 meeting in November 2014. This is so that the working group can
>focus its energy on completing other work.  We do expect to begin work
>on the video document (draft-ietf-rtcweb-video) to meet its milestone
>of December, but initially without specifying which of the two codecs
>is the WG consensus for MTI.
>
>When we return to the discussion, the working group chairs currently
>expect to run a consensus call on support for each codec to be
>mandatory to implement.  This expectation may change, however, based on
>new information or working group experience.
>
>If anyone has concerns about tabling this discussion until September
>29, 2014 please let us know by February 4.
>
>Thank you, 
>
>Cullen, Magnus, Ted <the chairs>
>
>
>
>
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