[mpeg-OTspec] AHG Kick-off and mandate until July 29th

[Levantovsky, Vladimir]

Hi Bob,

Sorry for a delayed response. From my prior experience, and according to established ISO WG11 practice - a typical procedure to introduce a change in the spec would be to bring up an issue (and the way to resolve it, be it a new spec language or updates) one would like to address here in the AHG discussion, or as a formal contribution to the WG11. Once an issue is discussed and agreed on, it would typically be presented to the WG11 (MPEG) as either part of the AHG report or as a separate input contribution when significant spec edits were proposed, as it happened in the past when we were discussing e.g. new registered features and proposed language / system tag updates (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mpeg-OTspec/message/914). Once an issue is discussed and has achieved a consensus decision (highly desirable but not mandatory), a specific new language for the spec needs to be approved again by consensus or a vote (either informal vote on this list during the working draft stage, or a formal ballot vote according to ISO directions).

You are right that many proposals have been presented in the past and discussed to various degrees - some were discussed at length and agreed, others received critique and were withdrawn, and unfortunately a number of proposals were not followed up upon (either due to a lack of interest on this list or because an original proposer didn’t follow up with necessary clarifications and updates to finalize the spec language.) As the editor of the ISO spec, I keep track of all discussions and proposed changes, and I also keep both clean and red-line versions of the working draft OFF spec with all the changes we agreed on (including e.g. your latest update to 'post' table we discussed and agreed on on this list). The working draft versions are updated after every MPEG meeting and are available for download from MPEG document repository.

Thank you,
Vladimir




> -----Original Message-----
> From: mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com [mailto:mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Bob Hallissy
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:10 PM
> Cc: mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [mpeg-OTspec] AHG Kick-off and mandate until July 29th
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> What are the procedures to accomplish this goal? Many proposals have
> been put forth over the last year with various degrees of discussion,
> but I'm not sure I understand how to actually get a change put into the
> official working draft.
> Bob
> 
> On 2013-04-30 at 14:53 Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:
> > The main goal for this period (until next MPEG meeting scheduled July
> > 29 – Aug. 2) is to finalize the text of the third edition working
> > draft OFF and get it ready for promotion to Committee Draft. This
> > means that any changes you would like to be part of the new
> > specification need to be discussed and agreed upon by the end of July
> 
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