Re: [rtcweb] Call for Consensus Regarding Selecting Recommended Audio Codecs

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Thu, 27 December 2012 16:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Call for Consensus Regarding Selecting Recommended Audio Codecs
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Speaking as an individual:

I am putting my name on 2), because I believe RECOMMENDED is too strong 
for secondary codecs.

On 12/20/2012 09:29 AM, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
> WG,
>
> As an outcome of the Vancouver IETF meeting codec discussions we did
> promise to run a call for consensus regarding if the WG was interested
> in specifying a small set of recommended audio codecs. We are sorry this
> has been delayed until now.
>
> The question for the call of consensus is between two options.
>
> 1) Run a process in the WG to select and specify a small set of
> audio/speech codecs that would be RECOMMNEDED to implement by a WebRTC
> end-points
>
> 2) Do nothing and let the already specified Mandatory to Implement Audio
> codecs be the only audio codecs mentioned in the WebRTC specification.
>
> Please indicate your position by January 16th 2013.
>
> Regards
>
> Magnus Westerlund
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