 paid off: three International Standards on Genomic Data Compression have been developed jointly with TC 276 and 3 more are in the pipeline.
Governance is important
MPEG achieved its results as a working group, i.e. as the lowest organisational unit in ISO/IEC that the ISO/IEC directives recommend to be “reasonably limited in size”. Rightly, the ISO/IEC Directives do not define the term “reasonable”, but in 1989 MPEG had already 100 members, in 1999 it had 300 members and in 2019 it has 1500 members 500 of which attend its quarterly meetings. For the work it has done, MPEG has been reasonably limited in size.
For 30 years MPEG has played a role much above its status and I do not think there should be complaints about the results. In normal conditions MPEG could continue to operate as a working group for another 30 years but, as I said above, these are not normal conditions.
MPEG should become a Subcommittee (SC). Why? Because an SC has a solid governance administered by delegates appointed by National Bodies under the leadership of a chair. On the other hand, the design of the organisation must be properly done, if we do not want to do more harm than good.
Design of the SC is important
To be successful, the organisation of the SC should be conservative because of the importance of the industries served by MPEG standards. Therefore, the organisation of the SC should leverage the existing successful MPEG organisation by retaining and strengthening:
- The existing well-honed and demonstrably effective MPEG organisation. MPEG has fed the global media industry with technology that has allowed its growth for the last 30 years. It would be irresponsible to do anything that jeopardises such a large industry, the millions of jobs that go with it and the billions of consumers.
- The MPEG collaborative stance with other bodies. The major reason of the success of MPEG standards is MPEG’s open collaboration stance with its many client industries as represented by their standard organisation or industry fora. Collaboration is a must for MPEG because compression is always part of a bigger system with many interactions with other components. However, what was good 30, 15 or even 5 years ago is not necessarily sufficient today.
- The match of new MPEG standards to market needs. MPEG has produced hugely successful standards. However, other standards are less so. This is inevitable for an organisation that develops anticipatory standards that sometimes target the next 5 years. MPEG’s ability to engage in standards that are better matches of market needs has to be enhanced because conditions have changed.
- The strong MPEG brand. The new organisation is an internal matter designed to give MPEG a better chance to face a complex situation and should not create confusion in the MPEG client industries.
Figure 1 represents the proposed organisation.
Figure 1 – Structure of Subcommittee “MPEG Coding of Moving Pictures and Audio”
Meeting design criteria
Criterion #1: the organisational chart of Figure 1 retains the current MPEG organisational structure where existing informal subgroups become (in italic the names of the existing MPEG entities):
Advisory Groups (AG) if they do not develop standards (orange blocks):
- Technical Requirements (Requirements)
- Liaison and Communication (Communication)
- Technical Coordination (Chairs meetings)
Working Groups (WG) if they develop standards (light green blocks):
- Systems Coding (Systems)
- Video Coding (Video)
- Audio Coding (Audio)
- 3D Graphics Coding (3D Graphics)
- Quality Assessment (Test)
- Genomic Data Coding (Genomic activity in Requirements)
Criterion #2: The chart preserves and extends MPEG’s collaboration stance: Joint Teams with ITU-T (JCT-VC and JVET). The new organisation will be able to establish JWGs to develop standards on well-identified common areas of standardisation, e.g. JPEG, SC 24, SC 41 (IoT), SC 42 (Artificial Intelligence), TC 276 (Bioinformatics).
Criterion #3: The SC will now be able to carry out activities with high strategic value by assigning to the Market Needs AG Technical Requirements AG the task to investigate 1) existing or new areas of work and 2) proposals for new areas of work. Both AGs will produce coordinated reports that will be used by the MPEG SC to make an informed decision on new work.
Criterion #4: The SC should be called “MPEG Coding of Moving Pictures and Audio” prefixing the word MPEG to the current title of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG).
Conclusions
In a few weeks industry will decide the future of MPEG.
Will industry decide to give itself a safe and prosperous path by adopting the organisation proposed in this article or will it opt for the Japanese saying “出る釘は打たれる” (The nail that sticks out gets hammered down)? Will industry allow the MPEG nail to keep on sticking out or will it hammer it down?
Stay tuned to this block for further news.
Posts in this thread
- Why MPEG is part of ISO/IEC
- The discontinuity of digital technologies
- The impact of MPEG standards
- Still more to say about MPEG standards
- The MPEG work plan (March 2019)
- MPEG and ISO
- Data compression in MPEG
- More video with more features
- Matching technology supply with demand
- What would MPEG be without Systems?
- MPEG: what it did, is doing, will do
- The MPEG drive to immersive visual experiences
- There is more to say about MPEG standards
- Moving intelligence around
- More standards – more successes – more failures
- Thirty years of audio coding and counting
- Is there a logic in MPEG standards?
- Forty years of video coding and counting
- The MPEG ecosystem
- Why is MPEG successful?
- MPEG can also be green
- The life of an MPEG standard
- Genome is digital, and can be compressed
- Compression standards and quality go hand in hand
- Digging deeper in the MPEG work
- MPEG communicates
- How does MPEG actually work?
- Life inside MPEG
- Data Compression Technologies – A FAQ
- It worked twice and will work again
- Compression standards for the data industries
- 30 years of MPEG, and counting?
- The MPEG machine is ready to start (again)
- IP counting or revenue counting?
- Business model based ISO/IEC standards
- Can MPEG overcome its Video “crisis”?
- A crisis, the causes and a solution
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