[PNG] Cancel meeting? Start work on Fourth Edition?

Hello everyone,

PNG Third Edition had a Candidate Recommendation snapshot
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/CR-png-3-20250313/>.
Also, the PNG group has entered a patent call for exclusion period until
5-12-2025.
When we all joined the PNG group, we agreed to a royalty-free licensing
commitment. If your organization has a patent that might conflict, now is
the time to look into it and resolve it.

I think this means after the exclusion period we can submit the snapshot to
W3C for review. So I think that means the group is in a holding pattern for
at least 2 months.

That is a long time. We might want to start on Fourth Edition,
parallelizing the work a bit.

Would you all prefer we wait until Third Edition has completed or would you
prefer we hit the ground running with Fourth Edition?
Said another way, should we cancel Monday's meeting or create a Fourth
Edition branch?

Received on Friday, 14 March 2025 20:14:13 UTC