[eside-ghost] royalty free codecs at the IETF

[Jon Ander Hernandez]

Aupi!

Sorry como es un poco tarde, no voy a traducir el texto :S, pero me
parece interesante que sepáis sobre la reunión que se va a celebrar
mañana (hoy día 30) en el IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) :


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There’s a press release / post up about a BoF that’s going to happen
tomorrow, July 30th, at the IETF meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. The
Xiph folks, along with some people from Skype, are proposing that the
IETF form a working group around audio codecs in use on the Internet
(with a capital ‘I’.) You can also attend this meeting online as well
to voice your position. To learn how, have a look at the post.

What’s interesting about this meeting is not that it’s happening.
What’s interesting is that there’s a lot of resistance to this idea.
It’s rumored, for example, that Ericsson, who has a vested interest in
heavily-patented audio methods in use for VoIP, has sent anywhere from
40-100 people to vote against such a working group. (Is this true? I
don’t know. But if it is it’s an interesting signal about the types of
business interests such a thing might displace.)

Note that this is completely separate from the HTML5 working group and
has no relation to those actions. And the IETF is a very different
organization from either the whatwg or the W3C. But it’s interesting
to see similar discussions taking place in another, similar,
organization.
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http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=1346



Nota de prensa de Xiph explicando más detalles :

http://xiph.org/press/2009/ietf75-bof/


Un saludete! ;-)

JonAn.