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

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Monty Montgomery]
> In the meantime, is the existence of the report stating that
> Ogg/Theora is Free and Open insufficient?

The key claim seem to be that Xiph.org is not an international
standardization organisation, as can be seen from the quote from Lars
van Marion and the modernisation department in
<URL: http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article189879.ece >.  When I
asked him how he could say what he was quoted in saying, he said he
was not accurately quoted but repeated that there are (what apparently
he believe are valid) arguments for claiming Xiph.org were not an
international standardization organization and refered to the
Microsoft hearing comment
<URL: http://www.regjeringen.no/upload/FAD/Vedlegg/Hoeringer/Refkat_V2/MicrosoftNorge.pdf >
as his source.

He also mentioned that Xiph.org is not listed on
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technical_standard_organisations>
as another argument indicating the same problem.

So the current report is not sufficient. :(

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen