Re: [PNG] June 13th, 2022 Meeting Topics

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the detailed investigation.

To summarize, you recommend:

- store ICC v4 in the existing iCCP chunk and thus not introduce a
separate iCCN chunk
- not support iccMAX (in this new edition)

Did I get this right?'

Best,

-- Pierre

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 3:49 PM Chris Blume (ProgramMax)
<programmax@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> Sorry about such late notice on the meeting topics for this coming Monday's meeting.
> I realize I did not give you all time to consider the topics, which reduces the value of the meeting. However, they are topics we have discussed before. I think we can now resolve some of the discussion and will find value in the meeting.
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> Previously, we were unsure if we needed a separate iCCN chunk or if we could reuse the existing iCCP chunk (making it ICC v4).
> We also discussed potentially adding an iCCM chunk for iccMAX.
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> I dug deep into all of the Color on the Web Community Group history I could think of. I have attached the results of my investigation. Here is the result of my investigation:
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> "At no point was there mention for or against repurposing the iCCP chunk to be ICC v4. However, there is clear acknowledgement that the existing iCCP chunk effectively already is ICC v4 (May 6, 2021, https://github.com/w3c/ColorWeb-CG/commit/c0d909ec716a997ff345a49e9773d620c0c6b747). This indicates a separate iCCN chunk is not needed and iCCP can indeed be ICC v4.
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> There were also several mentions of iccMAX being desirable. However, there were also concerns about security and limited support. The security concern comes from a scripting language included in iccMAX. Although the scripting language is designed to be safe, it is not yet widely adopted and thus not trustworthy.
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> We do not want to risk contentious items in the new PNG spec. Including an iccMAX chunk (iCCM) would endanger the other changes we want to land. I think it is best for us to delay the iCCM chunk for the next PNG spec edition. This reduces the number of changes and buys time for iccMAX to gain both adoption and trustworthiness."
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> Please review my investigation and let me know if I've missed anything.
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> I'll see you on June 13th, 2022!

Received on Friday, 10 June 2022 23:23:37 UTC