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

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 8:28 PM Levantovsky, Vladimir <
Vladimir.Levantovsky at monotype.com> wrote:

> *On* Saturday, August 15, 2020 11:55 AM John Hudson wrote:
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> 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.
>
> Thank you John for your acknowledgement of my efforts. I would like to
> clarify certain things because I feel there is a possibility for confusion
> here as you mentioned two related but vastly different activities [that
> ironically share similar names – OFF and WOFF], where the roles I play are
> very different.
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> From ISO WG point of view, this started as an experiment and a favor to
> the community, and, after many years of successful development, we are now
> seen as pioneers of sorts, a group that did things differently and proved
> that we can be very successful and achieve great results with the bulk of
> the work done offline
> <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unexpected-mpeg-media-type-fonts-leonardo-chiariglione/?trackingId=zJtuJM6HSLCtFQ%2BIFiSDpw%3D%3D>.
> We also earned trust that our proposals and recommendations are
> consistently of high quality, and the successful industry-wide adoption of
> ISO OFF / OpenType standard speaks volumes – one of my goals is to preserve
> this trust and relationships with ISO WG for the benefit of this community!
>

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