Re: George's thoughts: RE: IMPORTANT: Meeting announcement and draft agenda for JWG7 of JTC1/SC34, TC46/SC4 and IEC/TC100 TA10, 2018-05, Lisbon, Portugal

+1 to George's plan
--Bill K

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On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:30 PM, George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
>
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> Based onMakoto’s email below and our lengthy discussion on the call
> today, I thought I would put down my thoughts:
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> Approach
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>    1. Move briskly forward to develop EPUB 3.2 as a W3C CG Report, i.e.
>    the Standard we recommend.
>    2. Also update the Accessibility Spec to version 1.1  and submit as a
>    CG report
>    3. Develop a robust test suite for EPUB 3.2 that will also help our
>    rec track PWG
>    4. Develop Rachel’s Best practices (oops probably not called Rachael’s)
>    5. Marcket  the heck out of3.2 as being backward compatible as the
>    current Standard.
>    6. In ISO get assurances that the standards will be freely available
>    and may also be available from W3C
>    7. Ask Makoto to move forward with option 4, see below
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> Option 4: International Standards for EPUB 3.0.1 (fast-track) and EPUB
> A11Y 1.0 (normal process)
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> list of 4 items
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> • Estimated timeline: The target date is middle 2020. (The fast-track DIS
> ballot for EPUB 3.0.1 requires 6 months and the comment disposition requires
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> a few months. EPUB A11Y requires a CD ballot and a DIS ballot, at least.)
>
> • Pros: Not-so-late publication
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>    - No language in the EPUB 3.0.1 spec needs to be rewritten (Makoto
>    please confirm)
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> • Cons: EPUB A11Y is required to be rewritten in the ISO/IEC style,
> although it is short.
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> • Cons: Might hamper the adoption of 3.2.
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> While EPUB 3.0.1 being an ISO standard could in theory hamper 3.2
> adoption, because of the backward compatability of 3.2 with 3.01, plus
> the marketing in support of 3.2, plus the best practices in 3.2, plus the
> Ace supporting 3.2, , plus the new epubcheck supporting 3.2, I think we are
> in good shape.
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> That’s my thoughts and I am sure there are things missing.
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> Best
>
> George
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>
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> *From:* eb2mmrt@gmail.com <eb2mmrt@gmail.com> *On Behalf Of *MURATA Makoto
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 10, 2018 6:09 AM
> *To:* W3C Publishing Business Group <public-publishingbg@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: IMPORTANT: Meeting announcement and draft agenda for JWG7
> of JTC1/SC34, TC46/SC4 and IEC/TC100 TA10, 2018-05, Lisbon, Portugal
>
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
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>
>
> On May 16, SC34/JWG7 will have a comment
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> resolution meting for the Proposed Draft Techical
>
> Specifications Ballot of EPUB 3.0.1 (PDTS 30135 -1
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> to 6).  We have to choose either Option 4 or 5 before
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> this meeting.  We can take more time for Options 1, 2,
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> and 3.
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> Regards,
>
> Makoto
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>
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> 2018-03-27 18:58 GMT+09:00 MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>:
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> Dear colleagues,
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>
>
> This meeting is mainly for the comment disposition of ISO/IEC PDTS
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> 30135-1/66 (EPUB 3.0.1) and that of ISO/IEC PDTS 22424-1/2 (EPUB3
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> preservation).
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> The meeting announcement and draft agenda are available at:
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>   https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/2018Mar/0384.html
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> Referenced documents are also available at:
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>   https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/2018Mar/
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> These documents are not available to the public.  I believe
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> that TPI members have access to these documents.
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> I am sure that this meeting will care the input from W3C
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> very seriously.  After the last meeting, I created a list
>
> of possible options for the standardization of EPUB
>
> 3.0.1/3.2.  Is it possible to reach consensus on the
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> choice of several options, available at:
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>
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> https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/wiki/Five-options-for-creating-ISO-IEC-
> specifications
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>
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> ?
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> Regards,
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> MURATA Makoto (liaison from ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 to W3C)
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> --
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>
> Praying for the victims of the Japan Tohoku earthquake
>
> Makoto
>