[MPEG-OTSPEC] Proposal to discontinue the AdHoc Group

[Dave Crossland]

Thank you for the clarification, Sairus!

I think that's what John Hudson and Behdad are proposing.

I'm skeptical that it offers anything that the AHG can not offer :)




On Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 6:22 PM Sairus Patel <sppatel at adobe.com> wrote:

> > That work be done in W3C WG and result trickle down into OFF, has
> precedent in SVG-in-OT.
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> Let me offer a correction: “SVG Glyphs for OpenType” was a W3 Community
> Group (CG), not a Working Group (WG). That is worth noting, since there are
> significant differences between those kinds of groups.
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> The CG had no formal connection to OFF or to OT. It served as an open
> forum for discussion (in fact, one didn’t need to be a signed-up
> participant to send messages to the email list, I believe). Furthermore, a
> W3 CG seemed a natural fit, given the SVG standard’s home in W3C, the heavy
> involvement of SVG WG members in the development of OT-SVG, and SVG’s own
> goal of deprecating its <font> element. A “final report” was crafted by the
> CG & proposed to OT/OFF. That proposal continued to be refined and modified
> in OT/OFF forums.
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> Sairus
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