[MPEG-OTSPEC] Proposal to postpone the issuance of the CDAM2 ballot (was RE: New AHG mandates and other news!)

[Vladimir Levantovsky]

Dear AHG members,

 

Like I mentioned in my earlier emails announcing new AHG mandates (see
below), our first mandate is to review and discuss the text of the Committee
Draft amendment (CDAM2). There is a healthy debate happening on GitHub among
spec contributors / collaborators and implementers (see
https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat/issues/47 for details), which
would likely result in a substantial number of changes to be proposed. 

 

According to the ISO Directives, Working Groups are prohibited from
conducting the discussions of documents that are currently balloted.
However, as of right now, the OFF CDAM2 ballot has not yet been issued,
which gives us a unique opportunity to delay the issuance of the ballot
until after the next WG3 (MPEG Systems) meeting in July (July 12-18), and to
use this opportunity to continue the discussion and update the text of the
CDAM2 document prior to balloting. If we decide to do so, we'd need to
communicate our decision to the parent subcommittee (SC29), and then
recommend that the WG3 would adopt a new resolution to issue a regular,
2-months CDAM2 ballot. The results of that ballot (if issued in the end of
July) would be readily available by the next WG3 meeting scheduled in
mid-October, so the delay in issuing the ballot _at this time_ will not in
any way affect the overall timeline of the AMD2 project.

 

I propose that we should ask SC29 to delay the OFF AMD2 ballot giving us
another opportunity to discuss and review the future proposed changes during
the WG3 July meeting. If you have any objections or concerns regarding this
proposal, please respond to this email by June 15th. As usual, no comments
or objections will be treated as silent approval of the proposal to delay
the ballot, and I will communicate our desire to postpone the issuance of
the AMD2 ballot to SC29.

 

Thank you,

Vladimir

 

 

From: Vladimir Levantovsky [mailto:vladimir.levantovsky at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2021 11:12 AM
To: 'MPEG OT Spec list' <mpeg-otspec at lists.aau.at>
Subject: RE: New AHG mandates and other news!

 

And the press release summarizing the results of the last MPEG 134
<https://www.mpegstandards.org/meetings/mpeg-134/?fbclid=IwAR0Hr8eVBsLuO_84n
B3O-UkAsrCxgYsjEywS0LJPfXLLVMvbNuISvoMZbGY> th meeting (where the promotion
of the COLR v1 amendment to the Committee Draft status is highlighted among
other developments) is now published.

 

 

From: Vladimir Levantovsky [mailto:vladimir.levantovsky at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 6:37 PM
To: 'MPEG OT Spec list' <mpeg-otspec at lists.aau.at
<mailto:mpeg-otspec at lists.aau.at> >
Subject: New AHG mandates and other news!

 

Dear AHG members,

 

I am happy to report that at the recent WG3 "MPEG Systems" meeting
(conducted last week, April 26-30) the new set of AHG mandates have been
approved:

 

1. Review and discuss the text of ISO/IEC CD 14496-22 Committee Draft
amendment.

2. Explore potential future changes and updates, and propose new work items
(if applicable) for consideration in the future new edition of the OFF
specification.

 

I also would like to bring your attention to the fact that based on our
recommendations and WG3 Resolutions - the Working Draft amendment of ISO/IEC
14496-22:2019 (AMD2) has been promoted to Committee Draft stage and will be
published by ISO Secretariat under review and approval ballot. The document
has been approved for public distribution and is now available for download
<https://www.mpegstandards.org/wp-content/uploads/mpeg_meetings/134_OnLine/w
20285.zip> . I would like to encourage you all to share this information and
solicit for wide review and comments from the implementers and all
interested parties.

 

As part of the mandate #2, we are also encouraged to start exploration
activities to discuss the next round of changes that will become the basis
for the new OFF 5th edition work item - your contributions to these topics
(both on this list and / or new issues on MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat GitHub
<https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat> ) are much appreciated.

 

Thank you,

Vladimir

 

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