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

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Sat Jan 22 07:30:59 PST 2011


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?
>
> 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.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen



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