[sldev] Call for requirements: ISO MPEG-V (mpeg for virtual worlds) Deadline: July 16, 2008

[Lawson English]

Tateru Nino wrote:
[...]
> The way I see it, it doesn't matter actually much *what* it is 
> carrying. Ultimately we're talking about a transport protocol. Now, so 
> long as the transport protocol is (a) bi-directional, and (b) supports 
> connections to arbitrary network endpoints, and (c) is relatively 
> legally unencumbered (requires no particular licensing to use or 
> implement), and (d) relatively technically unencumbered (doesn't 
> hamper or impede things to the point where there is no point in 
> actually using it) -- well, then we'd be gold.

Those seem to be the very issues that MPEG-4 lacks. Allisa mentioned 
other initiatives that are meant to be about networking protocols and it 
sounds like those issues ARE addressed there, specifically in 
MPEG-21/SC29(?).


Lawson