[MPEG-OTSPEC] Proposal to discontinue the AdHoc Group

[Dave Crossland]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 1:23 PM John Hudson <john at tiro.ca> wrote:

> [a] [authoring proposals for OFF] needs to be entirely separate and
> self-governing, with its own procedures and tools for communication,
> collaborative editing, versioning, etc.,
>

>
[b] and only after it has completed its work on specific issues should it
> submit, through national standards bodies, proposals to OFF.
>

To the first part, I am optimistic that soon enough,
https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat can work as a place better than
https://github.com/commontype or https://github.com/opentype or
https://github.com/googlefonts/colr-gradients-spec or github.com/font-text
or github.com/microsoft/typography-issues or $many_other_examples, for this
kind of authoring of proposals.

To the second part, I think submitting the proposals directly through
national standards bodies is a terrible idea, and the AHG has been working
really well as a buffy to take proposals from the dispersed expert
community and "buffer" them from the ISO processes.

I think the process documentation that I've proposed at
https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat/pull/5/files?short_path=04c6e90#diff-04c6e90faac2675aa89e2176d2eec7d8
and Vlad has collaboratively edited with contributioins from Caleb is
demonstrating that this MPEG repo can work. I said the other day it would
be nice to move whole-hog from this mailing list to that repo, but I accept
that for now there is a 2 step process for the expert community, where
proposals are authored "elsewhere" in the first step, and secondly
submitted here to this email list. I think ideally the bulk of discussion
can (rather, will continue to) happen 'elsewhere' and this 2nd step on this
list will hopefully not involve much discussion, and rather the traffic on
this list will subside and become focused on voicing approvals or
objections to proposals.

I also am happy that by having that MPEGGroup repo, it is much easier to
track what happens in all the other Github repos, if they continue, from a
central place.
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