[MPEG-OTSPEC] Updates to specification

[John Hudson]

On 13082020 12:07 pm, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:
> I’d argue that for as long as we collectively treat this work as a 
> single entity and discuss everything out in the open, with all 
> interested parties being able to freely join the discussion – the 
> _/formal/_ agreement isn’t necessary (I am not even sure there can be 
> such a thing with ISO having full rights to make changes to their 
> document). We, as a community have vested interest in maintaining the 
> integrity of the technology, and developing it further in a way that 
> facilitates widespread adoption and implementations. 

Vlad, does ISO/MPEG have any kind of implementation requirement similar 
to, say, the W3C independent implementations requirement? Is it possible 
to institute one?

One of the things that has concerned me about both the OT and OFF is 
that they have sometimes been what I would class as speculative 
specifications, and have numerous features that are formally part of the 
format but have never been implemented (Peter just reminded us of one). 
In recent years, there has been some improvement in this regard, e.g. 
the implementation many aspects of OT variations before the 1.8 spec was 
published, but so far as I am aware there is no requirement for 
implementation built into the processes, and nothing like a public draft 
stage such as CSS has.

JH

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