After the
-Opus
-codec made it into IETF as
-RFC 6716, I had a look
-to see if there is any activity in IETF to standardise a video codec
-too, and I was happy to discover that there is some activity in this
-area. A non-"working group" mailing list
-video-codec
-was
-created 2012-08-20. It is intended to discuss the topic and if a
-formal working group should be formed.
-
-
I look forward to see how this plays out. There is already
-an
-email from someone in the MPEG group at ISO asking people to
-participate in the ISO group. Given how ISO failed with OOXML and given
-that it so far (as far as I can remember) only have produced
-multimedia formats requiring royalty payments, I suspect
-joining the ISO group would be a complete waste of time, but I am not
-involved in any codec work and my opinion will not matter much.
-
-
If one of my readers is involved with codec work, I hope she will
-join this work to standardise a royalty free video codec within
-IETF.
-