Re: [rtcweb] MTI video codec, charter, RFC 3929

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Fri, 08 November 2013 23:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] MTI video codec, charter, RFC 3929
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On 11/8/13 15:20, Peter Thatcher wrote:
> [S]ome people (FOSS projects) will have to ignore the spec if H.264 is 
> the MTI, because they have no choice... 

You appear to have somehow missed Cisco's announcement last week.

> Of course, you may then speculate in return that no one cares about 
> FOSS projects and browsers, which I speculate would be an ironic 
> coming from someone representing a FOSS project.

I think your assertion is trivially disproved by the fact that we, as a 
FOSS project, are going to support H.264 for WebRTC.

/a