<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 8:28 PM Levantovsky, Vladimir <<a href="mailto:Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com" target="_blank">Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Saturday, August 15, 2020 11:55 AM John Hudson wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span>On 15082020 8:12 am, <span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">梁海</span> Liang Hai wrote:<br>
> Part of the reason why I’m not keen on organizing this collective effort under ISO’s management (be it a WG, Ad Hoc Group, or what), is that ISO and/or JTC1’s publication process is not suitable for the documents we’re thinking. All we need is an easy to
navigate modern website with all the vital information we want to maintain, but I doubt ISO/IEC ITTF will grant us that. To be honest, it’s a pain to read those procedural documents in JTC1’s official format—it’s just gonna discourage potential participants
for no good reason.<br>
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Agreed.<br>
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Vlad does a great job of managing the institutional requirements — not <br>
only for OFF and ISO but also for webfonts and W3C — but I'm not keen on <br>
a process that effectively makes one person the interface between <br>
collective effort and institutional approval.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Thank you John for your acknowledgement of my efforts. I would like to clarify certain things because I feel there is a possibility for confusion here as you
mentioned two related but vastly different activities [that ironically share similar names – OFF and WOFF], where the roles I play are very different.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">From ISO WG point of view, this started as an experiment and a favor to the community, and, after many years of successful development, we are now seen as pioneers
of sorts, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unexpected-mpeg-media-type-fonts-leonardo-chiariglione/?trackingId=zJtuJM6HSLCtFQ%2BIFiSDpw%3D%3D" target="_blank">
a group that did things differently and proved that we can be very successful and achieve great results with the bulk of the work done offline</a>. We also earned trust that our proposals and recommendations are consistently of high quality, and the successful
industry-wide adoption of ISO OFF / OpenType standard speaks volumes – one of my goals is to preserve this trust and relationships with ISO WG for the benefit of this community!</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/behdadesfahbod/status/1295225739126571008">https://twitter.com/behdadesfahbod/status/1295225739126571008</a></div></div></div>