Re: Format name proposals

2009/8/18 John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>:
> [By the way, since the OT and OFF specs are not formally identical and with
> no guarantee against them diverging at some stage, I wonder if there is a
> benefit to the web font format in choosing one of these as the formal
> definition of the fontdata format?]

For the benefit of those on this list who aren't familiar with the
distinction, could you explain what the important differences are? :-)