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From: Magnus Westerlund
[mailto:magnus(_dot_)westerlund(_at_)ericsson(_dot_)com]
No, we have not requested WG consensus for this one. This is a decision we
chair have made ourselves. And the reason for this is while the previous
process proposal did require WG consensus to be used, this information
seeking is something we chairs can initiate, perform. In this case we do
believe that the time is best spent on performing this pool rather than
discussing if it is going to be done or not. The WG will by the end of this
poll
have more information and a better understanding of the positions and
objections against the various alternatives proposed.
Spending the Working Group's time on picking an MTI video codec at this point
is just as disruptive to the vital work the WG needs to complete as it would be
for me to stand in the corner of the next WG meeting continuously blowing a
vuvuzela.
Since taking up valuable meeting time on this topic and considerable mailing
list thread with this topic, we are no closer to a decision, and much more
importantly, it appears that zero progress has been made on nothing else that
the WG has signed up to deliver.
I am requesting that the chairs immediately suspend the "Straw Poll"
described below until such time as there is Working Group consensus to
spend the Working Group's time and energy conducting the poll and/or
to continue with the subsequent steps called out in "Next Steps in
Video Codec Selection Process" at
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg10448.html
The WG chairs believe they have good motivations and rights to call for this
straw poll. We will not suspend it. If you like to escalate your objection
please
contact our Area Director Gonzalo Camarillo.
I believe that the "straw poll" is both a thinly veiled recasting of the
original "vote" proposal *and* that the Working Group is having its time and
energy wasted on this progress.
As a result, I am not confident at this time that the chairs are directing the
Working Group in a way that will produce its chartered output in a timely
manner.
The Area Director is already copied and I would like this message considered as
escalation of my previous objection and request to suspend the poll.
Matthew Kaufman