Re: [rtcweb] Video codecs and the staw poll

I fully support tabling this discussion.

Mary.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca> wrote:

>
> 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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