<div dir="ltr">Looks good to me, even though I'm not the most active on this list and others might have a better say...<div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Pierre-Yves Thoulon.</div><div><a href="http://mjuware.com">http://mjuware.com</a> (home of FlacNetLib)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--<br>Pierre-Yves Thoulon<br>+33 (0)6 33 39 75 76</div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BxJb6AECGTzGNFdZZmNpTThrd1U&revid=0BxJb6AECGTzGWGJQc291U2UvYVFGS0tWdGRBcnk0bDRBT2RBPQ"><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Tessa Fallon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tessa.fallon@gmail.com" target="_blank">tessa.fallon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear members of the flac-dev list,</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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 (<a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dispatch" target="_blank">https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dispatch</a>). 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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tessa Fallon</div><div><br></div><div>More information about existing IETF codec groups:</div><div>netvc working group: <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netvc/documents/" target="_blank">https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netvc/documents/</a></div><div>codec working group:<a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/codec/documents/" target="_blank">https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/codec/documents/</a></div></div>
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