- From: Bill McCoy <bmccoy@idpf.org>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:55:43 -0700
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: kerscher@montana.com, W3C Digital Publishing <member-digital-publishing@w3.org>, W3C Public Digital Publishing <public-digital-publishing@w3.org>, Markus Gylling <markus.gylling@gmail.com>
Hi Ivan, Since George cc:ed me I will take the opportunity to chime in as well (IDPF did not receive a formal request for comments, which I presume is because it was sent to W3C members, and IDPF and W3C have presently a liaison relationship). Anyway for the record IDPF seconds the response George made on behalf of DAISY Consortium. As you know Markus is jointly appointed CTO of DAISY Consortium and IDPF. Since EPUB come from IDPF, and IDPF members are drawn from a larger pool of publishing industry stakeholders, I think it would be desirable to have direct IDPF representation in the leadership of the contemplated Interest Group. Since Markus wears both hats he can of course do that if he ends up being personally involved. If we wanted to formalize a reciprocal relationship or have IDPF join W3C in order to facilitate him wearing an "IDPF" hat , and/or to have additional representation from IDPF, that would certainly be an option. I just want to be clear that IDPF is open to whatever makes sense to help foster alignment and harmonization, and to ensure that publishing industry has the maximum bandwidth of communication with W3C in the interests of advancing the overall Open Web Platform. Best, --Bill On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > Thank you for your support George! > > Ivan > > On Mar 17, 2013, at 19:01 , "George Kerscher" <kerscher@montana.com> wrote: > >> DAISY Consortium, a long-time member of the W3C, supports the W3C >> increasing its emphasis on Digital Publishing, and the proposed Interest >> Group seems to be a good step. DAISY favors the wider charter because >> "eBooks" does not capture the full range of digital publishing use cases for >> the Open Web Platform. >> >> Accessibility to all is critical, and DAISY has worked within the >> International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) to ensure that EPUB, the >> packaged portable document format built on HTML and other Web Standards that >> has been developed by the IDPF, meets all key requirements for >> accessibility. As fragmentation of multiple non-interoperable formats would >> be a very bad result, both for accessibility and in general, DAISY believes >> it's critical that W3C's new engagement in publishing align with EPUB and >> explicitly involve IDPF and its 300+ members from across the global >> publishing industry in pursuing the worthwhile long-term goal of >> harmonization of EPUB and W3C Recommendations and other work to advance the >> Open Web Platform for publishing requirements. >> >> We also think that Markus Gylling would make an excellent co-chair for this >> work. >> >> Best >> George >> >> >> George Kerscher Ph.D. >> In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right. >> Secretary General, DAISY Consortium >> http://www.daisy.org >> Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Learning Ally originally Recording For >> the Blind & Dyslexic >> http://www.learningally.org >> Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the >> W3C >> http://www.w3c.org/wai >> President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) >> http://www.idpf.org >> Phone: +1 406/549-4687 >> Email: kerscher@montana.com >> >> >> >> > > > ---- > Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > mobile: +31-641044153 > FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf > > > > > -- Bill McCoy Executive Director International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) bmccoy@idpf.org +1 (206) 353-0233
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