<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><div><br></div><div>Following the last WG03 meeting, we've got an updated set of mandates - published as WG03N01013 approved at the ISO SC29/WG3 meeting that took place on Oct. 16-20, 2023. </div><div>Our new mandates for the period until the next WG meeting (scheduled on January 22-26, 2024) are as follows:</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">1. Review the text of the updated Working Draft of ISO/IEC 14496-22 5th edition (WG03N01017).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2. </span>
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Review the content of the “Technologies under
consideration” document (WG03N01081), work on developing and finalizing
specification changes to accommodate larger character sets and new features,
prepare an updated input contribution and provide recommendations for the WG3
on how these changes should be integrated in the “Open Font Format” standard</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">3. Explore potential future changes and updates, and propose new items (if applicable) for consideration in the 5th edition of the OFF specification.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The updated text of the ISO/IEC 14496-22 Working Draft (WG03N01017) will be made available for public review soon, and I will provide a link to it as soon as it is uploaded. Meanwhile, the "<a href="https://www.mpeg.org/wp-content/uploads/mpeg_meetings/144_Hannover/w23265.zip" style="box-sizing:border-box;opacity:0.9;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px">Technologies under consideration for ISO/IEC 14496-22 5th edition Open Font Format</a>" document [based on the input contribution we discussed at the WG meeting] has already been published, and, according to our mandate #2, we should continue reviewing it to prepare the updated input contribution and provide AHG recommendations for the WG3.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">ISO rules require that the AHG meeting announcements should be made at least two weeks in advance. Our earliest opportunity to schedule the AHG meeting will be the week of Nov. 27 (immediately following the Thanksgiving holidays in the US), or we can postpone it until next week, Dec. 4-8, 2023. Please let me know what dates work best for you.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Following our previously established practice, the AHG meeting date and agenda will be shared on this list, but the meeting Zoon link will not be, due to this list having a public archive. Everybody who has been a participant in the prior AHG meetings will be automatically invited to the future AHG meeting as well - if you have not participated in the AHG meetings in the past and would like to be added to the guest list - please to this email directly and I will gladly accommodate any and all requests.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Stay tuned for an additional announcement of updated Working Draft availability - I will share a document link on this list as soon as it's published.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Vladimir</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div>