- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:54:16 +0200
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, www-archive@w3.org, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > ... Lachy; good points, but it seems to me that you're missing the underlying point. You say: > It's also worth nothing that the patent concerns expressed by Apple are also shared by Microsoft [1]. So if we were to include a requirement for Theora and Vorbis in the spec, when we attempt to move to Last Call, the likely result would be that we would get formal objections from both Apple and Microsoft, at which point would have to go through this whole debate again and probably end up right back where we are now. The spec currently contains lots of stuff for which we keep hearing: "If we can't reach consensus or implementors reject it, it can be removed later on". One concern is that the decision what to do when (remove it pro-actively, as with the video codec discussion, or leave it in, as for instance, "microdata", or, gasp, a/@ping) seems to be somewhat arbitrary. BR, Julian
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