[MPEG-OTSPEC] To add some more perspective

[Behdad Esfahbod]

and respond to some of the recent commentary on the list:

Since 2014 the opentype-layout at unicode.org mailing list has been the *de
facto* embodiment of the MPEG Open Font Format Ad-Hoc Group.

Since 2016 the otfontvar at unicode.org mailing list has been the embodiment
of the MPEG Open Font Format Ad-Hoc Group in matters of Variable Fonts.

So whenever "drafts" came down *here*, on this list, for "review", they
*never* had any *real* chance to be *meaningfully* altered through feedback
on this list. What is offered by the chair on this list for review is to
double-check his copy/paste and search/replace work as well as spot typos
and grammatical mistakes and suggest improved wording. Otherwise the
*actual* work has already happened in meetings, most of them I /
Google(+Facebook) hosted (opentype-layout + half of otfontvar), the rest
Peter / Microsoft hosted.

I put together the agenda and chaired the opentype-layout ones. Peter
managed the otfontvar ones. In all cases only Peter had the pen, and access
to make changes appear in OpenType, and by the time they arrived at this
list for "review" they were well underway to ship in Windows, making
the *technical
essence* unchangeable unless to address major deficiencies (eg. STAT).

behdad
http://behdad.org/
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