<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><div><br></div><div>During last week, at the SC29/WG3 meeting, the AHG on Font Format was re-established by the WG3 to conduct our work until the next WG meeting that will take place on April 22-26. As usual, the input contribution registration deadline for the next meeting is Monday, April 15 (a week prior to the meeting).</div><div><br></div><div>The updated AHG mandates approved by the SC29/WG3 are as follows:</div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">1. Review the text of the
updated Working Draft of ISO/IEC 14496-22 5<sup>th</sup> edition (WG03N01099).<br>2. Work on developing and finalizing specification changes to </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">accommodate new ‘dmap’ table and new Feature Variations proposal<span style="color:black">, prepare input contributions and
provide recommendations for the WG3 on how these changes should be integrated
in the “Open Font Format” standard.<br>3. Explore potential future changes and updates, and propose new items (if
applicable) for consideration in the 5<sup>th</sup> edition of the OFF
specification.</span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Due to significant changes being introduced in the Working Draft, the WG has approved an extended editing period and the text of the WD of </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">ISO/IEC 14496-22 5</span><sup style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">th</sup><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> edition (WG03N01099) will not be available for review until after the edits are made. This, however, should not stop us from continuing our work on the second mandate to finalize the 'dmap' table and new "Feature Variations" proposals. I would like to ask the prospective authors to start preparing the detailed drafts that can be discussed by the AHG members online and during our Zoom meetings.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">As far as meeting schedule is concerned, I'd suggest to consider scheduling the first AHG meeting on either Feb. 20 (Tuesday) or Feb. 21 (Wednesday) at our usual time (15:00 UTC) to give authors and the AHG members enough time to work on the proposals and still have reasonable time left for follow up discussions. Please let me know (prospective authors in particular) if you believe this would be a reasonable timeline for early draft discussions, or if we should consider postponing the first AHG meeting until the last week of February. The AHG meetings have to be announced at least 2 weeks ahead of the meeting date, so we have until Feb. 6 to decide whether this proposed AHG meeting schedule would work.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Thank you,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Vladimir</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div></div>