Re: ISO/IEC standardization of EPUB: Procedure

Bill,

I do not support the revision of TS for 3.1.  I do not support
the upgrade of TS to IS for 3.1 either.  But I am very interested
in creating an ISO/IEC Technical Specification for EPUB
Accessibility 1.1.  This work should not take much time but it
provides real benefits, since EPUB Accessibility 1.1 at W3C
is neither a recommendation nor a .note but is merely a
CG report (thanks, Ivan).

Regards,
Makoto
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2017-05-09 9:47 GMT+09:00 Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org>:

> Dear Makoto, thank you very much for the detailed information.
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> So for PBG folks, my take is the following
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>    1. While it would be possible in principle to work with S. Korea to
>    upgrade EPUB 3 from TS (Technical Specification) to IS (International
>    Standard), and in the process could upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1, this would be
>    considerable work and presents some obstacles since some of the dependent
>    W3C specifications normatively referenced by EPUB 3.1 and earlier revisions
>    are not themselves final Recommendations but only Candidates
>    Recommendations or even Working Drafts. With everything else we have on our
>    collective plate I can’t recommend that we pursue it at this time.
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>    1. As Makoto points out it would be possible to work with S. Korea and
>    SC34 to upgrade the current EPUB 3.0 TS to 3.1 but not through “fast track”
>    but the normal procedure. I don’t know that this would significantly change
>    the effort required for this , mainly to process incoming errata reports,
>    even if the only result is that for “righteous” errata we commit to
>    addressing in a future revision (as IDPF agreed to do for 3.0, and did so
>    in 3.0.1) but it would certainly increase the risk that it would not be
>    successful due to objections and would probably be at least somewhat more
>    hassle overall. I think PBG members should consider, and opine about if not
>    in tomorrow’s call then in the near future, how significant they see the
>    benefits of such an upgrade in terms of for example supporting
>    accessibility mandates specifying EPUB 3. I have not heard anything
>    specific about this and perhaps it could be ‘good enough” for a11y mandates
>    that need an ISO reference to specify TS 30135 with a note, as appropriate,
>    recommending use of EPUB 3.1 as the current version. I don’t think we
>    should necessarily forbid use of EPUB 3.0 particularly as the modular EPUB
>    Accessibility specification element of EPUB 3.1 was designed to apply to
>    EPUB 3.0 as well later (and hopefully future) revisions. But that is just
>    my opinion. If PBG thinks it Is a high priority we could then discuss
>    further with EPUB 3 CG and other stakeholders. But if PbG doesn’t think it
>    is a high priority we probably should table it for now (which might mean
>    forever as far as EPUB 3 family is concerned, although a future EPUB 4 that
>    is a W3C Recommendation could use the W3C PAS process to become a full IS).
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>
>
> --Bill
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>
>
> *From:* eb2mmrt@gmail.com [mailto:eb2mmrt@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *MURATA
> Makoto
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 7, 2017 8:31 PM
> *To:* public-publishingbg@w3.org
> *Subject:* ISO/IEC standardization of EPUB: Procedure
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>
>
> Dear colleagues,
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>
>
> I plan to send a sequence of e-mails about this topic.  This first
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> e-mail is about procedures.  The ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 secretariat
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> checked the content of this e-mail.
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> 1) ISO/IEC TS 30135
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> The combination of EPUB 3.0 and FXL has been published as
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> ISO/IEC Technical Specification 30135-1 to -7.  They were
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> submitted by Korea as Draft Technical Specifications using
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> the fast-track procedure.
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> 2) Fast-track procedure
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> Member bodies (including Korea) are able to submit their national
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> standards as draft international standards (DISs).  Fast-tracked DISs
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> are voted only once for acceptance as International Standards.
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> It is not impossible for Korea to adopt EPUB 3.0.1 or 3.1 as national
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> standards and then submit it as a Draft International Standards.
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> Member bodies were allowed to submit Draft Technical Specifications,
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> but they are no longer allowed to so due to recent changes to ISO/IEC
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> directives.  Thus, Korea cannot submit EPUB 3.0.1 or 3.1 as Draft
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> Technical Specifications.
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> 3) PAS procedure
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> PAS submitters (including W3C) are able to submit recommendations as
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> draft international standards (DISs).  PAS-submitted DISs are voted
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> only once for acceptance as International Standards.  No existing
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> versions of EPUB are W3C recommendations.  Thus, W3C is
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> not allowed to submit EPUB3 as draft international standards.
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> There has been no PAS process for draft technical specifications.
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> Thus, W3C is not allowed to submit EPUB3 as draft technical
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> specifications.
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> 4) Normal procedure
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> It is possible to use the normal process for revising ISO/IEC 30135 in
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> sync with EPUB 3.0.1 or 3.1.  ODF 1.1 (OASIS standard) was standardized
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> in ISO/IEC SC34/WG6 in this manner.  Associating Schemas with XML
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> documents 1.0 (W3C Working Group Note) was also standardized in
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> ISO/IEC SC34/WG1 in this manner.  Although the normal procedure
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> requires more than one ballot, it is not so slow as long as no
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> oppositions are supported by other member bodies.
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> https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-xml-model-20110811/
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> What is more, SC34 has already made a resolution for using the normal
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> procedure for revising ISO/IEC TS 30135.
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>   Resolution 9: Revision of ISO/IEC TS 30135: 2014, Information technology
> -- Digital
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>   publishing -- EPUB3 (all parts)
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>   SC 34 creates sub-projects for a revision of TS 30135 (all parts) and
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>   assigns them to JWG 7 for development. The revision is to address the
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>   latest EPUB3 revision (3.0.1), in which parts 2 and 7 are merged. SC
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>   34 instructs its Secretariat to take the necessary action to obtain
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>   JTC 1 endorsement in accordance with JTC 1 Supplement 2.1.5.4.
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> 5) Superseding
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> No matter which process is used for standardizing EPUB 3.0.1 or 3.1 in
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> ISO/IEC, the current version, ISO/IEC 30135:2014 (EPUB 3.0 and FXL),
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> will disappear from the ISO/IEC catalog.
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> It is not completely impossible to have more than one editions in the
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> ISO/IEC catalog.  In fact, ODF 1.0 (including 1.1) and 1.2 are both
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> in the catalog as ISO/IEC 26300:2006 and ISO/IEC 26300:2015.  But
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> this is a special case.  In the case of OOXML (ISO/IEC 29500), only
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> the latest edition is in the catalog.  Since EPUB 3.0 is an ISO/IEC
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> Technical Specification rather than an International Standard, I think
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> that there are slim chances.
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> Regards,
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> ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG4 Convenor
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> Head of Delegation of the Japanese SC34 mirror
> Makoto
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