[MPEG-OTSPEC] AHG kick-off and AHG meeting announcement

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 8:05 AM Dominik Röttsches <drott at google.com> wrote:

>  please respond to this email to indicate your availability and specific
>> date preferences for the call.
>
>
> FWIW, I prefer the week of Nov 27. - the week after I likely have a work
> trip and there's a public holiday and - for many - a long weekend in
> Finland.
>

Nov 27 works for me. I'll be traveling the rest of that week.  I'm
available the week after it though.

b



> Dominik
>
>
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> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:57 AM Vladimir Levantovsky <
> vladimir.levantovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Following up on my previous email, I am happy to let you know that the
>> text of the updated WD of ISO/IEC 14496-22 5th edition Open Font Format
>> <https://www.mpeg.org/wp-content/uploads/mpeg_meetings/144_Hannover/w23170.zip> is
>> now available for public review.
>>
>> While integrating the proposed changes related to newly introduced
>> Condition Table Format 2 (see subclause 6.2.9) I realized that the current
>> description of the Condition Table is technically incorrect since it is
>> referring to non-existent version number of the ConditionSet table (see
>> second paragraph). It appears that the corresponding parts of the
>> OpenType spec
>> <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/chapter2#featurevariations-table>
>> have already been modified at some point but these text
>> modifications/corrections have not been proposed to the SC29/WG3 yet.
>>
>> I also would like to remind you that we need to schedule the AHG Zoom
>> call to further discuss the changes necessary to make progress on the
>> "Beyond 64K glyphs" proposal summarized in the "Technologies under
>> consideration for ISO/IEC 14496-22 5th edition Open Font Format
>> <https://www.mpeg.org/wp-content/uploads/mpeg_meetings/144_Hannover/w23265.zip>"
>> document. Our available options are to schedule the first call either
>> during the week of Nov. 27 or the week of Dec. 4 - please respond to this
>> email to indicate your availability and specific date preferences for the
>> call.
>> (I am hopeful that the additional changes we discussed during the last WG
>> meeting would already be integrated in the updated version of the proposal
>> that we can review and finalize during the call.)
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Vladimir
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 4:31 PM Vladimir Levantovsky <
>> vladimir.levantovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Following the last WG03 meeting, we've got an updated set of mandates -
>>> published as WG03N01013 approved at the ISO SC29/WG3 meeting that took
>>> place on Oct. 16-20, 2023.
>>> Our new mandates for the period until the next WG meeting (scheduled on
>>> January 22-26, 2024) are as follows:
>>>
>>> 1. Review the text of the updated Working Draft of ISO/IEC 14496-22 5th
>>> edition (WG03N01017).
>>>
>>> 2.   Review the content of the “Technologies under consideration”
>>> document (WG03N01081), work on developing and finalizing specification
>>> changes to accommodate larger character sets and new features, prepare an
>>> updated input contribution and provide recommendations for the WG3 on how
>>> these changes should be integrated in the “Open Font Format” standard.
>>>
>>> 3. Explore potential future changes and updates, and propose new items
>>> (if applicable) for consideration in the 5th edition of the OFF
>>> specification.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The updated text of the ISO/IEC 14496-22 Working Draft (WG03N01017) will
>>> be made available for public review soon, and I will provide a link to it
>>> as soon as it is uploaded. Meanwhile, the "Technologies under
>>> consideration for ISO/IEC 14496-22 5th edition Open Font Format
>>> <https://www.mpeg.org/wp-content/uploads/mpeg_meetings/144_Hannover/w23265.zip>"
>>> document [based on the input contribution we discussed at the WG meeting]
>>> has already been published, and, according to our mandate #2, we should
>>> continue reviewing it to prepare the updated input contribution and provide
>>> AHG recommendations for the WG3.
>>>
>>>
>>> ISO rules require that the AHG meeting announcements should be made at
>>> least two weeks in advance. Our earliest opportunity to schedule the AHG
>>> meeting will be the week of Nov. 27 (immediately following the Thanksgiving
>>> holidays in the US), or we can postpone it until next week, Dec. 4-8, 2023.
>>> Please let me know what dates work best for you.
>>>
>>>
>>> Following our previously established practice, the AHG meeting date and
>>> agenda will be shared on this list, but the meeting Zoon link will not be,
>>> due to this list having a public archive. Everybody who has been a
>>> participant in the prior AHG meetings will be automatically invited to the
>>> future AHG meeting as well - if you have not participated in the AHG
>>> meetings in the past and would like to be added to the guest list - please
>>> to this email directly and I will gladly accommodate any and all requests.
>>>
>>>
>>> Stay tuned for an additional announcement of updated Working Draft
>>> availability - I will share a document link on this list as soon as it's
>>> published.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Vladimir
>>>
>>>
>>>
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