[MPEG-OTSPEC] Proposal to discontinue the AdHoc Group

[Simon Cozens]

On 24/09/2020 19:04, Peter Constable wrote:
> But on the surface looking at that site, the process behind that seems very unclear and opague;  my limited understanding is that this has been initiated by a private 
company, Google, and some back room collaborators.

Similarly I'm choosing carefully what I respond to here, but for the 
avoidance of doubt from anyone reading the list, I want to make 
something abundantly clear.

The name on the top of the CommonType web site is mine; there is a 
company name, Corvel Software, which is my consultancy. The list of 
contributors is available from the GitHub repository 
(https://github.com/commontype-standard/commontype/commits/master); 
currently the contributors are myself, Florian Rival and Caleb 
Maclennan. I don't know if Florian or Caleb are tasked to contribute by 
Google, but again you can look at the commit history and see that their 
contributions are not particularly substantive to the text of the 
documentation.

I am contracted to Google for other areas of work, but this project is 
entirely independent - I have been working on the idea of independently 
annotatable font format documentation a long time before Google thought 
it was interesting, and I receive no funding from Google for any work on 
CommonType.

I hope this clears up any confusion.

S