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13 <a href=
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21 <div class=
"title">IETF activity to standardise video codec
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22 <div class=
"date">15th September
2012</div>
23 <div class=
"body"><p>After the
24 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">Opus
25 codec made
</a> it into
<a href=
"http://www.ietf.org/">IETF
</a> as
26 <a href=
"http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC
6716</a>, I had a look
27 to see if there is any activity in IETF to standardise a video codec
28 too, and I was happy to discover that there is some activity in this
29 area. A non-"working group" mailing list
30 <a href=
"https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec">video-codec
</a>
32 <a href=
"http://ietf.10.n7.nabble.com/New-Non-WG-Mailing-List-video-codec-Video-codec-BoF-discussion-list-td119548.html">created
2012-
08-
20</a>. It is intended to discuss the topic and if a
33 formal working group should be formed.
</p>
35 <p>I look forward to see how this plays out. There is already
36 <a href=
"http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/msg00003.html">an
37 email from someone
</a> in the MPEG group at ISO asking people to
38 participate in the ISO group. Given how ISO failed with OOXML and given
39 that it so far (as far as I can remember) only have produced
40 multimedia formats requiring royalty payments, I suspect
41 joining the ISO group would be a complete waste of time, but I am not
42 involved in any codec work and my opinion will not matter much.
</p>
44 <p>If one of my readers is involved with codec work, I hope she will
45 join this work to standardise a royalty free video codec within
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