The MPEG Future Manifesto

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The MPEG Future Manifesto

Communication makes us humans different. Media make communication between humans effective and enjoyable. Standards make media communication possible.

Thirty-two years ago, the MPEG vision was forming: make global standards available to allow industry to provide devices and services for the then emerging digital media so that humans could communicate seamlessly.

For thirty-two years the MPEG standards group has lived up to the MPEG vision: MPEG standards are behind the relentless growth of many industries – some of them created by MPEG standards. More than half the world population uses devices or accesses services, on a daily or hourly basis, that rely on MPEG standards.

The MPEG Future Manifesto claims that the MPEG mission is far from exhausted:

  • New media compression standards can offer more exciting user experiences to benefit consumers that the service, distribution and manufacturing industries want to reach, but also for new machine-based services;
  • Compression standards can facilitate the business or mission of other non-media industries and the MPEG standards group has already shown that this is possible.

Therefore, the MPEG Future Manifesto proposes a concerted effort to

  • Support and expand the academic and research community which provides the life blood of MPEG standards;
  • Enhance the value of intellectual property that make MPEG standards unique while facilitating their use;
  • Identify and promote the development of new compression-related standards benefitting from the MPEG approach to standardisation;
  • Further improve the connection between industry and users, and the MPEG standards group
  • Preserve and enhance the organisation of MPEG, the standards group who can achieve the next goals because it brought the industry to this point.

MPEG Future is a group of people, many of whom are MPEG members, who care about the future of MPEG. MPEG Future is open to those who support the MPEG Future Manifesto’s principles and actions.

You may:

  • Participate in the MPEG Future activities, by subscribing to the LinkedIn MPEG Future group https://bit.ly/2m6r19y
  • Join the MPEG Future initiative, by sending an email to info@mpegfuture.org.

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