[News] Hope Reborn for Monopoly-Free Media Standards
Roy Schestowitz
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IETF working towards royalty-free audio codec
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| Nearly one dozen developers want to
| standardise a royalty-free and non-patented
| audio codec for internet applications with
| the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
| Among them is the chief developer of the Ogg
| Speex and Ogg CELT open source audio
| formats, Jean-Marc Valin. The formation of a
| new working group was agreed at a meeting of
| the internet standards organisation in
| Hiroshima. The new working group is to
| evaluate various proposals by Valin and
| other developers and combine them into a
| standards document.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/IETF-working-towards-royalty-free-audio-codec-859394.html
Google advances multiple efforts to make the Web faster
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| When you add up this week's top Google news,
| it paints a picture of a gargantuan, but
| immature, effort to make the Web faster.
| Google open sourced "Go" its experimental
| programming language that combines the speed
| of scripting languages with the speed and
| safety of compiled languages. It released an
| experimental replacement for HTTP known as
| "SPDY." Plus rumors are swirling that Chrome
| OS will be seen next week at last.
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Recent:
Xiph.Org Supporting IETF Royalty Free Codecs BoF
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| For some years now, Xiph.Org has been gently advocating royalty free codecs
| within the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) as a viable and preferred
| alternative to patent-controlled technologies. Recently more groups within
| the IETF have also come forward to support free codec standardization work
| with in the IETF. On July 30th at the next IETF Meeting (IETF 75 in
| Stockholm[1]) the IETF will hold a codecs BoF to take input on whether or not
| to form a standards Working Group for royalty free audio codecs. The creation
| of such a Working Group would have a major impact, opening the door to a
| Voice over IP stack completely free of licensing and royalty constraints.
| We're seeking to set up the same kind of open competition and cooperation
| we've seen on the web that's given rise to tons of investment and improvement
| in a very short period of time.
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http://xiph.org/press/2009/ietf75-bof/
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