- From: Chris Blume (ProgramMax) <programmax@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:11:56 -0400
- To: "Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Working Group" <public-png@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAG3W2Kd0BLfDEUvbkRbEsLOV6u_DsKkhUCAny7wLzSWUmJJZyA@mail.gmail.com>
Hello everyone,
We have a meeting this coming Monday. Here are some topics we can discuss.
Feel free to reply with any topics you would like to add/alter.
- Discussion topics
- C2PA
<https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.2/specs/C2PA_Specification.html#_embedding_manifests_into_png>
(provenance
and authenticity)
- Last time, we asked how widely used it is. It sounds like
billions of PNGs have been produced with the 'caBX' chunk,
since AI systems
include it when producing images.
- Given this many images with 'caBX', perhaps we don't need to
rename the chunk to 'cABX' when adding it to the spec.
- SMPTE ST 2094-10 <https://github.com/w3c/png/issues/311> (tone
mapping metadata)
- We're waiting for more information. As such, this might be more
of a status update report here than a discussion topic.
- SMPTE 2094-50 <https://github.com/SMPTE/st2094-50> (gain curves)
- A draft was just made public 3 days ago (follow link above).
- Should we add a chunk for this?
- T.35 <https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-T.35-200002-I> is related.
- ISO 21496-1 <https://www.iso.org/standard/86775.html> (gain maps)
- Any update on ISO possibly making this freely available?
- Last meeting, we learned that W3C strongly prefers referencing
freely available specs but makes exceptions. And that ISO is
unlikely to
make specs free (although, I recall we managed this in the past?).
- If it seems unlikely for the spec to become freely available,
should we continue with some new chunks?
- Updates
- Apple will help with the iDOT extension.
- FileReadSpeedTest <https://github.com/ProgramMax/FileReadSpeedTest>
tool created to help identify & test decoding performance goals.
Received on Friday, 26 September 2025 19:12:13 UTC