<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">William Overington wrote:</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">I was not seeking to participate in the meeting. I was simply hoping to send a document about my idea for a Many to many substitution and localization feature to be added.</span></div></blockquote><div>And if you do so, your document would end up being seen by the same group of experts that already gave you very elaborate detailed feedback on your idea.</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">I do not know what are the ISO rules.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><p>Our work is governed by the <a href="https://www.iso.org/declaration-for-participants-in-iso-activities.html">Declaration for participants in ISO activities</a> and by the <a href="https://www.iso.org/sites/directives/current/consolidated/index.html#_Toc165304981">ISO Directives</a>.</p></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Should my suggestion of a Many to many substitution and localization feature not have been posted in this mailing list?</span></p></div></blockquote><div>At some point in time, the AHG mandates included exploration activities of new technologies, but since the new 5th edition text is now finalized, no new proposals can be accepted at this time. Besides, your idea has already received a preliminary review of experts and has been rejected primarily because it violates the basic principles of separation between textual content and its visual representation.</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Is there a way that a future Working Group mandate could include a Many to many substitution and localization feature please?</span></div></blockquote><div>No, because the mandates for future work are developed by consensus of the Working Group experts. Your idea has already been discussed at lengths, and the reasons for its rejection have been clearly stated. Repeated discussions of the same idea are not going to yield a different outcome.</div><div><br></div><div>With kind regards,</div><div>Vladimir</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 12:55 PM William_J_G Overington via mpeg-otspec <<a href="mailto:mpeg-otspec@lists.aau.at">mpeg-otspec@lists.aau.at</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"><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Vladimir Levantovsky kindly replied to my enquiry.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Thank you for replying.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Vladimir Levantovsky wrote as follows.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">> ISO Working Group meetings are not open to general public, they’re open only to registered delegates that are nominated as Working Group experts by their respective National Bodies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">I was not seeking to participate in the meeting. I was simply hoping to send a document about my idea for a Many to many substitution and localization feature to be added.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">> Once you become an NB member nominated as the WG delegate, you would be eligible to gain access to members-only WG resources, including documents registry.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">I do not have the necessary expertise in font technology to perform such a role. I have made a few fonts, including some with glyphs for symbols that I have designed in relation to my research in communication through the language barrier in some particular circumstances using encoded localizable sentences, but I am not an expert in font technology.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">> I also need to remind you that although this ad-hoc group and the associated mailing list are accessible to public, we operate according to ISO rules. You do need to be a registered delegate nominated by your NB.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Oh! I did not know that. Though in fairness, there is nothing about that on the</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-otspec" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-otspec</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">webpage. It looks like anyone can join and post.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">I do not know what are the ISO rules.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Should my suggestion of a Many to many substitution and localization feature not have been posted in this mailing list?</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">> Also, our scope of work is limited by what is expressly defined by the Working Group mandates. These mandates are approved at WG meetings - participants of this AHG are not at liberty to amend them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Is there a way that a future Working Group mandate could include a Many to many substitution and localization feature please?</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">William Overington</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Friday 25 October 2024</span><br> </p><p> </p>_______________________________________________<br>
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