"A new IETF working group has been formed in the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area [...] The goal of this working group is to ensure the existence of a single high-quality audio codec that is optimized for use over the Internet and that can be widely implemented and easily distributed among application developers, service operators, and end users. At present it appears
that ensuring the existence of such a codec will require a development effort within the working group, however if a candidate codec is presented that achieves the goal then the working group should seriously consider stopping its development work..."