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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On Wednesday, October 7, 2020 3:31 PM Behdad Esfahbod wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>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="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">...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
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proof of concept</a>, before even <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qO6FCqxr5lFOX0EMCXCwfJ" 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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:23.1pt">That's might technically be true but inaccurate representation of the turn of events.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">You’re right prior to that , there were at least three different private implementations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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":<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/CWx6Crkv5mtA2VkBC49k0J">https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2018Apr/0000.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">So you suggesting that Google did proof of concept in private before bringing it to WebFonts WG is inaccurate IMO.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">And your recollections of the events are neither true nor accurate IMO, as evidenced by the meeting minutes from the two prior F2F we had in 2016 and 2017:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.w3.org/2016/09/12-webfonts-minutes.html">https://www.w3.org/2016/09/12-webfonts-minutes.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwrIS9Yzd8hrp1wlv_SiEaUI3cpRgSrtjdqV1yzV7Kg/edit?ts=5a04d39b#">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwrIS9Yzd8hrp1wlv_SiEaUI3cpRgSrtjdqV1yzV7Kg/edit?ts=5a04d39b#</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Vlad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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