In addition to requesting approval of the texts described above in section 1.4 (and associated dispositions of WG 11 NB comments and expressions of thanks to WG 11 NBs for their input) and informing WG 11 of the AHGs established as described above in section 9, the following JVT resolutions were reported to the WG 11 parent body:
The the JVT and the video subgroup of WG 11 recommended approval of the WG 11 N9577 Report of the WG 11 SVC verification tests and the N9617 liaison statement template for conveying these results with WG 11 liaison letters.
The JVT and the video subgroup of WG 11 thanked Technische Universität München for use of its facilities and thanked the following participants for their substantial contributions of effort in the work on the SVC verification test: Vincent Bottreau (Thomson), Christian Keimel (Technische Universität München), Tobias Oelbaum (Technische Universität München), Heiko Schwarz (Fraunhofer HHI), and Mathias Wien (RWTH Aachen University).
The JVT and the video subgroup of WG 11 thanked the following companies for their financial support of the SVC verification test: Fraunhofer HHI, Microsoft, Orange, ST Microelectronics, and Vidyo.
The JVT and the video subgroup of WG 11, considering the apparent deployment of a significant number of products that support only the coding tool features that are in common between the Baseline, Main and High profiles of ISO/IEC 14496-10 (ITU-T Rec. H.264) Advanced Video Coding, requested NBs to provide comments regarding the potential need for specification of a new AVC "Common profile" consisting of the tool constraints expressed by the syntax element combination of profile_idc equal to 66 with constraint_set1_flag equal to 1. It was suggested that comments should arrive prior to the April 2008 JVT and WG11 meetings.
The JVT chairmen proposed to hold the 27th JVT meeting during 23-29 April 2008 under the auspices of the meeting of ITU-T SG 16 in Geneva, CH. Further meetings are expected to be held during 20-25 July 2008 under WG 11 auspices in Hannover, DE; 12-17 October 2008 under WG 11 auspices in Busan, KR; and 27 January – 3 February 2009 under ITU-T SG 16 auspices in Geneva, CH.
Post-meeting note: The plans for the Geneva meeting were subsequently modified to start the JVT meeting on Thursday 24 April 2008 after lunch at 2:30 p.m. and end by lunchtime on Tuesday 29 April 2008, as announced by email to the JVT reflector on 18 February 2008.
