[MPEG-OTSPEC] [EXTERNAL] Re: Text of ISO/IEC 14496-22/CD is now available for review

[MURATA]

Peter,

2024年10月3日(木) 8:33 Peter Constable <pconstable at microsoft.com>:

> Murata:
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> The Directives (Part 2, clause 7) are clear about statements regarding
> requirements (use “shall” or “shall not”), recommendations (use “should” /
> “should not”) and permission (use “may”). It also describes words to use to
> describe possibilities: use “can” or “cannot”.
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> However, the latter doesn’t adequately cover the scenario of possibility
> of a non-event. “Can” means that an event could occur — >0% possibility;
> “cannot” means the event will not occur — 0% possibility. But it doesn’t
> recommend language when you want to advise the reader of <100% possibility,
> i.e., the possibility the event does not occur. While I haven’t checked all
> occurrences of “may not”, the occurrences I did check were all attempting
> to state the possibility of non-occurrence.
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> If you are aware of terminology guidance in the Directives for that
> situation, I’d be interested to know where it is.
>

I know Directives, Part 2 and ISO House Style.  I am not aware of any other
guidelines.

The interpretation of these guidelines by our Editorial Program Manager in
ISO/CS is authoritative.   Who is that person in SC29?  Whenever we have a
question, we should contact that person.

Regards,
Makoto

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> Regards,
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> Peter Constable
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> *From:* mpeg-otspec <mpeg-otspec-bounces at lists.aau.at> *On Behalf Of *MURATA
> via mpeg-otspec
> *Sent:* Friday, July 12, 2024 4:37 PM
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> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [MPEG-OTSPEC] Text of ISO/IEC 14496-22/CD is
> now available for review
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> To the editors,
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> I have not read this CD carefully yet, but I am happy to report that
> neither "MUST" nor "must" appears in this document.
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> Unfortunately, "may not" is still used.  I will try to make JP raise a
> comment.
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> While editing the OOXML specification (ISO/IEC 29500-1, 2, 3, and 4), ISO
> instructed SC34/WG4 not to use normative modal verbs (such as "shall",
> "may", and "should") in non-normative descriptions such as examples and
> notes.  So, I wrote a program for enumerating all such occurrences.  I will
> modify this program and use it for this document.
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> Regards,
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> Makoto
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> 2024年7月12日(金) 5:10 Vladimir Levantovsky via mpeg-otspec <
> mpeg-otspec at lists.aau.at>:
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> Dear all,
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> The text of the Committee Draft of the 5th edition ISO/IEC 14496-22/CD
> "Open Font Format" is now available for download and review:
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> https://www.mpeg.org/wp-content/uploads/mpeg_meetings/146_Rennes/w23797.zip
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> Once the ballot is open, any changes you wish to make in the current text
> need to be submitted via your respective National Bodies as comments, using
> the following ISO commenting template
> <https://www.iso.org/resources/publicly-available-resources.html?t=MGTmD5TwK496A_y6JsbrKdnDBmIZ6L0rvjNNXYvKmXhIpfLuCJx5JQWQqL5GcGPw&view=documents#section-isodocuments-top>.
> The CD text is available for download as both "tracked changes" and "clean"
> versions - when submitting comments, please reference the clean version of
> the text for clarity and correct page number references.
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> Please note that if the proposed change requires a substantial amount of
> text to be replaced, it is allowed to submit a comment referencing a future
> input contribution document with detailed proposed changes. Any such
> document would have to be registered and uploaded in advance - to reserve
> the document number and provide comments prior to ballot closing date
> (which is yet to be announced).
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> Please also note that different National Bodies have their own additional
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> Thank you for your contributions and hard work!
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> Vladimir
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