Speaking of Standards

For those of you following the ongoing “RTCWEB” work to bring about standards for real-time communications from within web browsers, there are now two new public mailing lists that you can join – and are where all the RTCWEB activity is now intended to happen.

On the IETF side, as part of the new charter for the RTCWEB work, there is now a mailing list at:

https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rtcweb

You can subscribe and also view the archive from that page.

On the W3C side, a working group is still forming there, but the mailing list is now up for subscription at:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webrtc/

The W3C list was literally created today, so there has not yet been any activity on that list.

The work of the RTCWEB initiative is now moving into the standards bodies… and so if you want to monitor or participate in the work, you’ll need to join those mailing lists.

At SpeechTEK in New York City a few weeks ago, our own Dan Burnett was recognized by Speech Tech Magazine as one of the “2008 Speech Luminaries” for all his years of work on industry standards relating to speech. We were delighted for Dan to receive the (well-deserved!) recognition and I had a chance to record a brief video interview with Dan at SpeechTEK:

As Dan mentions, he is Director of Speech Technologies in our Office of the CTO (OCTO) reporting in to our CTO, RJ Auburn, and is responsible for looking at how to constantly improve our speech recognition technology and also ensure it is compliant with standards.

Congratulations, Dan, on the recognition by Speech Technology Magazine!

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P.S. And yes, for those following along at home, Dan Burnett and I were both hired into the OCTO at about the same time… we thought about instituting a rule where all new OCTO employees had to be named “Dan”, but thankfully that rule was ignored with the recent excellent addition of Wei Chen!

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