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

[Vladimir Levantovsky]

Dear AHG members,

The proposed delay in issuing the OFF CDAM2 ballot has been confirmed, and the new ballot will be issued in the end of July, after the next WG3 MPEG Systems meeting that will take place the week of July 12-16. The new ballot will be a two-months long ballot; having it opened by the end of July will give us an opportunity to collect ballot comments by end of September and have them processed at the next WG3 (October 11-15) meeting, so that our target publication schedule won’t be affected by the delayed ballot.

This means that we can continue unrestricted discussions of any proposed changes in the text of the AMD2 draft, and can utilize the next WG meeting opportunity to introduce additional changes and updates by submitting input contributions for discussion at the next WG meeting. Considering the upcoming US holidays (Independence Day weekend, July 3-5), we should consider the July 2nd to be our target deadline for registration and submission of the input contributions.

Thank you,
Vladimir 


> On Jun 11, 2021, at 5:00 PM, Vladimir Levantovsky <vladimir.levantovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear AHG members,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thank you,
> Vladimir
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> 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 (where the promotion of the COLR v1 amendment to the Committee Draft status is highlighted among other developments) is now published.
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> 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>
> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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. 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.
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> 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) are much appreciated.
>  
> Thank you,
> Vladimir
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