<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="ltr" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><div>> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">When it comes to input documents, it depends on the source.</span><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div><p><br></p><p>Can you explain why please?</p><p><br></p><p>If something is submitted to a committee for consideration for including in an international standard, why is it confidential?</p><p><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Why is it allowed to be confidential?<br></p><p><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br></p><p>Maybe there is a good reason.</p><p><br></p><p>William Overington</p><p><br></p><p>Friday 14 August 2020<br><br></p><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 2em; border-left:2px solid #00ADE5; white-space: pre-wrap "><br><br>------ Original Message ------<br>From: "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com><br>To: "Peter Constable" <pgcon6@msn.com>; "Dave Crossland" <dcrossland@google.com><br>Cc: "mpeg-otspec" <mpeg-otspec@lists.aau.at><br>Sent: Friday, 2020 Aug 14 At 16:25<br>Subject: Re: [MPEG-OTSPEC] Updates to specification<br><br> <div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31,73,125);">Some of the output documents produced by the ISO WG (like e.g. List of AHGs) can be made available to the public, but it is again a Committee decision to do so. When it comes to input documents, it depends on the source.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31,73,125);"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31,73,125);">Vlad</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31,73,125);"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31,73,125);"> </span></p> <div> <div style="border: none;border-top: solid rgb(225,225,225) 1.0pt;padding: 3.0pt 0.0in 0.0in 0.0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Peter Constable <<span class="wt_Email">pgcon6@msn.com</span><span></span>> <br> <b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 14, 2020 1:40 AM<br> <b>To:</b> Dave Crossland <<span class="wt_Email">dcrossland@google.com</span><span></span>>; Levantovsky, Vladimir <<span class="wt_Email">Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com</span><span></span>><br> <b>Cc:</b> mpeg-otspec <<span class="wt_Email">mpeg-otspec@lists.aau.at</span><span></span>><br> <b>Subject:</b> RE: [MPEG-OTSPEC] Updates to specification</p> </div> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">><span style="font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"> Where are the documents referenced in (1)?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Welcome to how ISO operates. The JTC1/SC29/WG11 documents can all be found at</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/2RIyClYmL2U2GP90HGyOnn" target="_blank">https://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objid=8916126&objaction=ndocslist</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">And they’re all under lock and key, accessible only if your country’s standards body has nominated you as an expert to participate in WG11.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Peter</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <br/></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>