It seems to me that a group should be chartered with two sets of aims First to define a process for registering Internet audio CODECs for use on the Internet. This is slightly more complex than simply allocating an IANA code point as there are potentially parameters involved and these need to be exposed to the higher level protocol. When a code point is registered we need to have a document that defines the parameters, bit packing, packet segmentation and other issues, the set of applications for which it applies and the proprietary encumbrances that are known to affect it. Second, to register a set of base CODECs that have already established some form of support base. This is likely to mean rather more than simply providing a reference to an existing document that describes how to do everything but should not extend to performing 'research' into compression techniques. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf