Annex 3 to AVC-496R

REPORT OF REGIONAL COORDINATING MEETING

1. Time : Sunday, March 28 from 16:00 to 18:00
2. Place: Holiday Inn Menzies Sydney
3. Participants

	Aravind, R		USA
	Biggar, M.		Australia
	Eude, G.		France
	Haskell, B.G.	USA
	Hibi, K.		Japan
	Koster, A.		Netherlands
	Morrison, D.G.	UK
	Okubo, S.		Chairman
	Parke, I.		UK
	Takishima, Y.	Japan
	Ueno, H.		Japan
	
4. Purpose

To check if there are any contentious matters from TSS point of view toward the joint sessions.  If there are, to clarify the situations first of all, and to find possible directions among regional coordinators.

5. Discussion

We exchanged views on the following topics focusing on proposals from TSS members and items where differing experimental data are presented:

	1) Low delay mode

		- handling of skipped picture headers

	2) Error resilience

		- AC-leaky prediction
		- Data partitioning

	3) Scalability

		- spatial scalable vs frequency scalable
		- new profile
		- scalability by PBP
		- scalability by PBP and Main Profile
		- integration of various features into a single syntax

	4) MPEG multiplex and AAL/ATM

		- overlapping functionalities

	5) DSM control

		- relevance TSS Recommendations

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