[MPEG-OTSPEC] Removal of the CFF and CF2 from OFF standard

[David Singer]

> On 9Oct, 2020, at 8:28 , Dave Crossland <dcrossland at google.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:20 AM David Singer <singer at apple.com> wrote:
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> > On 9Oct, 2020, at 8:09 , Dave Crossland <dcrossland at google.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:07 AM David Singer <singer at apple.com> wrote:
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> > your problem comes when there are changes proposed and accepted through the ISO process of international review. the external copy doesn’t have the rights to fold those in.
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> > But we would seek their author to contribute them, and, if not possible, we would rewrite from scratch that section and submit it, same as we plan to do to everything else. 
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> but a rewrite from scratch would have to be in different words, and now your copy and the official standard have diverged.
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> But they will unify in the subsequent official version,

how? 

once an ISO proposed standard is past CD, you can only change in response to NB comments
once it’s published, you have to use the same process to amend the texts

> and the collaborative effort can always reference the official one with a placeholder in the interim. 
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> I have no idea how you could go about finding the original author. 
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> In the next session, the proposed rewrite would come with a call to prevent the need for this by contributing to the collaborative effort. 

Dave Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple

singer at apple.com