[MPEG-OTSPEC] Defining the text shaping working group’s scope

[John Hudson]

On 15082020 8:12 am, 梁海 Liang Hai wrote:
> Part of the reason why I’m not keen on organizing this collective effort under ISO’s management (be it a WG, Ad Hoc Group, or what), is that ISO and/or JTC1’s publication process is not suitable for the documents we’re thinking. All we need is an easy to navigate modern website with all the vital information we want to maintain, but I doubt ISO/IEC ITTF will grant us that. To be honest, it’s a pain to read those procedural documents in JTC1’s official format—it’s just gonna discourage potential participants for no good reason.

Agreed.

Vlad does a great job of managing the institutional requirements — not 
only for OFF and ISO but also for webfonts and W3C — but I'm not keen on 
a process that effectively makes one person the interface between 
collective effort and institutional approval.

Frankly, I would see any kind of institutional approval — whether by 
ISO, Microsoft, or ? — as a late stage goal, not something to tie 
ourselves into at the outset by submitting ourselves to someone else 
defining our mandate and scope. At this point, what we mostly want 
institutions to do is get out of the way.

JH

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