[MLA] AES paper

[Grimm | Eelco]

Dear all,

My plan was to present a paper at AES New York about my Tidal research and ask you to assist me in writing it. I avoided looking at the AES New York website until recently, because I feared for what I would find. This is it: http://www.aes.org/events/143/authors/cfp/ 
And indeed my fears were real: the deadline to apply for a 'category 1' paper was May 31st. That was just one week after AES Berlin. I could not possibly have met that deadline. 'Category 2' would have been possible, but the month June was crazy busy for me, with no chance to write the paper. The final deadline is July 26th, and with only one week to go that is no serious option either. A lightweight 'engineering brief' is still possible (deadline is September 9th), but I wonder if that format is appropriate for this research. 

So I need your advice. We could do one or more of the following things:

1. Write an official category 1 paper for next AES in Europe, spring 2018. 

2. Rush an engineering brief for AES New York, so there is at least some official documentation. 

3. Present the project in a workshop again, like in Berlin. 

4. Keep the recommendation fairly unofficial, as a direct advice to the streaming services (like I already did).

5. Bring it as an independent research paper into the TC-BOD committee, so they can use it as input to improve TD1004.


I'd love to do #3. I hope there's place for it in one of the workshops (perhaps if there's no loudness workshop this time, I could present it at the mastering workshop?). #4 and #5 have already been done. So my question is mainly: Should we rush an engineering brief or aim for a serious paper at next years' AES in Europe?

All the best,
Eelco