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

Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com> Mon, 24 December 2012 10:28 UTC

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I vote 2 - we have enough codec wars without opening another front - for absolutely zero user benefit.
 


On 20 Dec 2012, at 08:29, 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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