Subject: Protocol Action: 'Ogg Encapsulation for the Opus Audio Codec' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-codec-oggopus-14.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:23:31 -0800

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Ogg Encapsulation for the Opus Audio Codec'
  (draft-ietf-codec-oggopus-14.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Internet Wideband Audio Codec Working
Group.

The IESG contact persons are Barry Leiba, Ben Campbell and Alissa Cooper.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-codec-oggopus/

Technical Summary

This specification defines the encapsulation of the Opus [RFC6716] audio codec in the Ogg [RFC3533] container format. This allows Opus audio bitstreams to be stored in Ogg files or streamed over networks in a form that is identical to the file storage format.

Working Group Summary

Solid WG consensus on this spec throughout the process with no controversy or objections.

Document Quality

Multiple existing implementations of this specification are listed at:
https://wiki.xiph.org/OggOpusImplementation

Multiple reviews of this specification had no substantive issues, other than some discussion about reasonable guidelines for protecting implementations from malicious input streams.