Looks good to me, even though I'm not the most active on this list and others might have a better say...
Kind regards, Pierre-Yves Thoulon. http://mjuware.com (home of FlacNetLib) -- Pierre-Yves Thoulon +33 (0)6 33 39 75 76 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Tessa Fallon <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members of the flac-dev list, > > I'm writing to ask for feedback from the FLAC community regarding the > possibility of standardizing the FLAC specification through the Internet > Engineering Task Force. I'm working with MediaArea on the PREFORMA project > which focuses on building conformance checkers for Matroska and FFV1. Since > Matroska and FFV1 are not yet formally standardized, this past July, I > presented a proposal for an IETF working group for standardizing > specifications for FFV1 and Matroska, both of which are open-source but > without formal standardized specifications. We chose to bring this to the > IETF because of relevant past/ongoing work in the IETF(including the netvc > working group's Thor codec and Daala, and the Codec working group 's Opus > audio codec) and because of the IETF's commitment to open source standards. > Input from the IETF community encouraged us to expand our initial > proposal from FFV1 and Matroska to include FLAC, and create instead a > lossless codec working group. > > We're very excited about the possibility of creating a working group that > will address audio and video codecs as well as a container for AV archiving > and preservation. We currently have support from both the FFV1 and > Matroska developer communities, and I wanted to take this opportunity to > ask the FLAC developer community if there is interest in and support for > moving forward with the inclusion of FLAC in the IETF working group. > > The IETF process relies on volunteers willing to review and improve > specifications, and participation in the IETF process happens through the > IETF listserv. Currently, discussion of this proposal will take place on > the IETF DISPATCH working group list--DISPATCH reviews new work for the > IETF prior to the formation of a working group ( > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dispatch). There is no formal > membership process for IETF--you become part of the IETF community by > participating in discussions of work and working on proposed > standards/publications. In short, the standardization of FLAC through IETF > will rely on the flac-dev community actively participating in the > modification and preparation of the specification. > > > Best wishes, > > > > Tessa Fallon > > More information about existing IETF codec groups: > netvc working group: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netvc/documents/ > codec working group:https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/codec/documents/ > > _______________________________________________ > flac-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev > >
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