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[Rob Koenen]

Ben, all,
>     I hope we'll see some Scalable profiles become available 
> sooner rather than later.

Next on the list for licensing are Simple Scalable, Advanced Simple 
and Fine Granular Scalability (FGS).
See http://www.m4if.org/patents/video111401.html for MPEG LA's
press release.
In the case of Advanced Simple and Fine Grain Scalability, MPEG LA
called for essential patents even before the standard is published,
so the process is self-learning and rapidly catching up with the
lag that was here for the first announcement, a few days ago.
Advanced Simple is the Profile that ISMA uses. 
I am not a patent expert, but I expect that there aren't a whole
lot of patents necessarily  inforinged by an Advanced Simple
implementation that aren't also infringed by Simple or Core.
On the basis of this (my layman's assumption) so I would expect 
(pure conjecture) that the terms can be materially the same.
FGS is the technology that builds on either Simple or Advanced 
SIple base layer to give a number of enhancement layers that can be
seamlessly added or deleted as bandwidth varies.
Rob