To all Q15/16 participants and interested parties from Q11-14/16:
I have updated the Sunriver Q15 meeting plan and placed it on the Q15 ftp site (file: q15bT2r2.doc).
A copy of our document registration list is also available there (file: q15b00r1.doc).
The Q15 ftp site is at:
ftp://standard.pictel.com/video-site/
and these documents for Sunriver are found in the sunriver.sep97 directory.
Within section 2.2 of the meeting plan document is a list of all issues and documents which appear relevant to the joint sessions of Q.11-15/16 which are scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday. The list is meant to be inclusive, so we may not necessarily want to discuss all those topics in the joint sessions. Among those issues and documents, the ones which pertain to white document contributions for the January meeting of SG16 should probably be given the top priority (e.g., H.245v3 and H.263+ issues).
My own impression of our current status is that I am disappointed not to have seen more work done on H.245 for H.263+. Apparently the people who have devoted their time and energy toward designing the H.263+ video coding enhancements have not seen fit to ensure that their new video codec is adopted properly into the terminals that are intended to use it (with the exception of those working on Annex N of H.263). This is mystifying, because a video coding standard is not much good if it isn't used in anything, and H.245 is not that hard to understand. I hope that we can improve the H.245 content substantially in Sunriver. I want to encourage all concerned to have a look at that issue and to think about what is needed. We will need to assess the state of our work on this issue as the Sunriver meeting progresses.
A copy of the current draft of H.245v3 can be found at: ftp://standard.pictel.com/avc-site/9706_Her/APC-1192.zip (within which can be found h245wcma.ww2).
Best Wishes,
Gary Sullivan
PictureTel Corp. M/S 635 Tel: +1 978 623 4324 100 Minuteman Road Fax: +1 978 749 2804 Andover MA 01810 USA Email: garys@pictel.com