The 25th General Assembly will deal with

• Approval of IDP-3.3

• Planning for an  Open Media Marketplace (OMM) demo in October 2010

• Coordinating a response by interested parties to the expected Call for Proposals on Advanced IPTV Terminal (AIT) by MPEG

The 91st MPEG meeting in Kyoto will deal with some substantial matters

• Publication of Call for Proposals on High Performance Video Coding (HVC)

• Publication of Call for Proposals on Advanced IPTV Terminal (AIT)

• MPEG Media Transport (MMT) workshop (2010/01/20)

• Possible publication of Call for Proposals on MPEG Media Transport (MMT)

Following the successful meeting in September, Torino will host another meeting of the Advanced IPTV Terminal (AIT) Ad Hoc Group. Attendance is open to those supporting the objectives of the AIT project. Technical  documents and logistic information here

Leonardo's statement to a reporter:

The HADOPI law is an example of a problem that is real but ill-formulated and worse solved. the fact that immaterial goods can be manipulated with greater freedom does not imply that the laws that used to guarantee the property rights of those goods should be cancelled, but only updated to adjust their use to the new freedom.

It iss just ironical that the country that two centuries ago has generated the "Declaration of the rights of Man and Citizen", source of so many changes to the history of mankind, has become the vanguard of a crusade to suppress those rights in the new society that rightly expects to enjoy the new rights made possible by the new freedom.

The problem with HADOPI is that not only will the objective not be reached, but the basis of society will be damaged. The very economic interests that the law purports to support will be damaged. The enjoyment of the new freedom will be prevented.

all this to preserve obsolete business models.

Some think that engineers are needed to undo the confusion created by others. As an engineer I note that the current use of the term "broadband" is most confusing. Depending on countries, people, context it can mean anything from 2 Mbit/s asymmetric to 100 Mbit/s symmetric access.

The low end of "broadband" can be obtained with a judicious use of existing infrastructure, but various degrees of new infrastructure is required for the high end.

Is it too much to ask you what kind of "broadband" you have in mind before you ask me whether I am pro or con investing in "broaband"?

• A set of documents on Advanced IPTV Terminal
• Approval of MPEG-V FCD
• Approval of Video Signature Tools FPDAM
• Planning for a second MPEG Media Transport workshop in Kyoto
• Publication of the Draft Call for Proposals on High Performance Video Coding
• Start of a new MPEG-U part on Advanced User Interaction Interface

Read the Xi'an MPEG press release

• Approval of IDP-3.3 WD 2.0
• Joint meeting with the MPEG Advanced ITPTV Terminal (AIT) Ad Hoc Group on Open Media Marketplace (OMM)

Read the Xi'an DMP press release

• 1st International MPEG Extensible Middleware Developers Day
• Workshop on MMT (MPEG Media Transport)
• Kick off (CD) to the Rich Media User Interface standard (MPEG-U)
• Kick off (CD) to the Media Context and Control standard (MPEG-V)
• Positive outcome of the HVC Call for Evidence
• MPEG adopts the BSD licence for the reference software of the MXM standard, dropping its proposed extension to the Mozilla licence in the face of opposition from the OSI community. The result is that the MXM software will not be more patent free but the BSD licence will protect less users of the standard.

1. What about the BSD and MIT licences? Don't they achieve the same purpose of releasing just the copyright of the code? Are they not OSS licences?
2. Imagine there is an individual releasing code under MPL 1.1 that requires patents of a 3rd party with which he may have all sorts of business relationships.