<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 10:24 PM Levantovsky, Vladimir <<a href="mailto:Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com" target="_blank">Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com</a>> wrote:<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><br></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">...and the most recent work on Progressive Font Enrichment (now being conducted in WebFonts WG in public) was initially based on an internal work
by Google that materialized as a <a href="https://fonts.gstatic.com/experimental/incxfer_demo" target="_blank">
proof of concept</a>, before even <a href="https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/webfonts-2018.html" target="_blank">
the new WebFonts WG charter</a> was approved. In all three cases, the initial internal developments gave start to public work, and provided a solid foundation for WG charter approvals.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's might technically be true but inaccurate representation of the turn of events.</div><div><br></div><div>It was in April 2018 f2f meeting of WebFonts WG at Google Berlin I think; the WG was looking for next projects to work on after conclusion of WOFF2.</div><div><br></div><div>I suggested that since all of Microsoft, MonoType, Adobe, and Google have developed privately technology for font streaming (Google's has been Open Source; Tachyfont), I suggested that the WebFonts WG take on standardizing font streaming, which was renamed to "Progressive Font Enrichment":</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2018Apr/0000.html">https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2018Apr/0000.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>So you suggesting that Google did proof of concept in private before bringing it to WebFonts WG is inaccurate IMO.</div><div><br></div><div>behdad</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>