Advanced Professional Video
draft-lim-apv-09

draft-lim-apv-07 has been presented to the ISE for
publication as an Informational RFC on the Independent Stream.

==Purpose==

This draft specifies an open source codec known as APV.

== History==

This codec was initially developed by Samsung but has since been
provided to the community.  A letter from Samsung is reproduced in
ASCII at the bottom for the record.  The original is held by the ISE
in the draft-lim-apv folder for archival purposes.

The work was first brought to the ISE in February of 2025, and has
gone through a number of revisions since.


==Security Considerations==

See Section 10 of the document.

==IANA==

The document makes no request for IANA action.

==Reviews==

This document was reviewed by Mo Zanaty and Stephan Wenger.

==Letter from Samsung==

From: Kwang Pyo Choi
To: Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear)
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:16:31 +0900

Dear Eliot,

Thank you for your tremendous efforts on reviewing the draft and
sharing excellent comments for improvements.


On behalf of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., I sincerely confirm it is
our licensing policy that for implementation and distribution of APV,
neither licensing from nor contract with Samsung Electronics
Co. Ltd. will be required as APV has been originally designed and
developed to be an open standard for free public use by the industry.


We are excited about great interest and fast market adoption of APV by
the industry. We are trying our best to support the industry
needs. Therefore, I would like to reassure that timely publication of
APV specification as an IETF RFC is truly important and best aligned
with our strategy on sharing a free open public professional codec
with the industry as no membership or fee required to access the
document.

Please feel free to let us know if there are any way to accelerate the
publication process of the draft.


Regards,

Kwang Pyo Choi