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

[Dave Crossland]

Sounds good to me!

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 6:00 PM Vladimir Levantovsky <
vladimir.levantovsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 134th
> meeting
> <https://www.mpegstandards.org/meetings/mpeg-134/?fbclid=IwAR0Hr8eVBsLuO_84nB3O-UkAsrCxgYsjEywS0LJPfXLLVMvbNuISvoMZbGY>
> (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
> <vladimir.levantovsky at gmail.com>]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 4, 2021 6:37 PM
> *To:* 'MPEG OT Spec list' <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/w20285.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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