[Xiph-Advocacy] Will Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora and FLAC become free and open standards soon?

[xiphmont at xiph.org]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
>
> Is this the wrong list for these questions?
>
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
>> [Monty Montgomery]
>>> We meet these definitions.  We even have paperwork on file with the
>>> Norwegian government saying so (at their request).
>>
>> Can you make this paperwork available on the web?

Not sure-- I'd have to contact the Swedes.  Sigh, infinite paperwork,
finite time...

>> Can you make information about the governing structure of the Xiph.org
>> Foundation available on the xiph.org web pages?  Espesially who is in
>> the board, how is it elected, how the foundation is funded and how it
>> spend its money would be useful to make it easier to recognize the
>> Xiph.org as a vendor neutral non-profit.
>
> According to Slashdot, Google try to get VP8 standardized via IETF.
> According to Monty, IETF did not want to standardize codecs, so I was
> a bit surprised by this.

It took nearly 10 years to get the IETF to start looking at codecs.
We just finally started getting traction on the issue in 2008 with a
codec WG finally formed in 2010 to work on the Opus codec.  That's a
one-shot WG, but it's still a precedent if it succeeds.

Monty