From: Fernando Pereira Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 Dear Eric I'm very sorry for this late answer to all your messages but I just arrived from Australia after participating in the PCS and having some holidays. Please forgive me ! By the way, PCS went very, very well for MPEG4 and for European projects. As you know, I made a keynote speech which had a very positive reaction namely from people that didn't know very well MPEG4 because is not following it very closely. Moreover european projects were very often referred and I had myself the opportunity to announce in the final panel session the release by MOMUSYS of the VM software. As I promise you I will send you a short report about PCS'96. I ask you to be so kind to allow me to sent it after the next week because I'm going to Florence and this week I'm trying to synchronize between lessons, 800 ! e-mails amd many other things. About the MPEG4 Forum, I had already the opportunity to tell you that I consider the idea very important. It is however quite difficult to make it work because people has already a lot to do. In these days there isn't too much time to think. Although I also support the idea that too much travelling should be avoided, lunch meetings or break meetings will very likely not be enough to achieve big results. It should also be avoided that too much people is involved because this will just destroy the possibility of any interesting work be produced. But maybe I'm too pessimist ! Anyway without a clear allocation of responsibilites I'm paying to see the results and I will be very pleased to see BIG results. Please keep this comments just for you. Technically I agree with Olivier that applications should be carefully analysed. Moreover a clear strategy regarding some MPEG4 functionalities that till now played a less important role should be defined. I'm referring to SNHC, stereo images, 3D representations, audio, etc. In one of your messages you mention I offered to produce an MPEG4 overview based in my PCS paper. When should it be made available ? Which dimension ? By the way, I have to give you my congratulations about the idea for ACcenTS since this kind of exchange process was missing in european projects. I hope it will be a success. The only problem in these days is that its success requires the participation of best people and this people has more and more things to do. Looking forward to meet you soon, best regards Fernando