Re: [PBG] Agenda for 20181106 call : EPUB3.2 REC Track important discussion

Dear all,

Today regret to join.
Starting at 2:00 am is too hard to join.

Best,

Junko Kamata
Voyager Japan, Inc

2018年11月6日(火) 16:21 AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>:

> Sorry missing line for item 1) Back from TPAC Lyon 2018: please see Wendy
> Reid Post at :
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> https://www.w3.org/blog/2018/11/publishing-at-tpac-2018/
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> Luc
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> *De : *AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>
> *Date : *mardi 6 novembre 2018 à 08:09
> *À : *W3C Publishing Business Group <public-publishingbg@w3.org>
> *Cc : *"McCloy-Kelley, Liisa" <lmccloy-kelley@penguinrandomhouse.com>,
> "Johnson, Rick" <Rick.Johnson@vitalsource.com>
> *Objet : *[PBG] Agenda for 20181106 call : EPUB3.2 REC Track important
> discussion
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> Hello W3C Publishing Business Group Members,
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> Below is the agenda for our call this coming Tuesday, November 6th  to be
> held at [0].
> We hope you will be able to join us!
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> Please join with EDRLab GoToMeeting [1]  (IRC channel *#pbg*).
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> *Agenda:*
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>    1. Back from TPAC Lyon 2018
>    2. EPUB3 Roadmap: plan to promote EPUB3.2 as W3C REC
>       1. See my report below
>       2. Questions, comments, objections ?
>       3. PBG has to give a position before the end of November
>    3. EPUBcheck - Update on Development and Fundraising – please
>    socialize and commit funds! @ [2]
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> *Back from W3C TPAC 2018 in Lyon*
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> *Main proposition:*
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>    - *PUBLISHING@W3C envisions EPUB3.2 a W3C recommendation* !
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> *Details:*
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> *On the Publishing side, Publishing Working Group F2F *Monday and Tuesday
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>    1. *Concerns on EPUB3.2*
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> Now that *EPUB 3.2 has been written as a note from the community group* (thanks
> to Dave), questions arise about its promotion and deployment.
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>    - *EPUB 3.2 promotion clashes with EPUB4* *with a time target of Q2
>    2020,* being developed in the Working Group as a profile of Web
>    Publication. EPUB 3.2 is of great help to push publishers to switch to
>    EPUB3 with *epubcheck ready in Q2 2019*, but this is disturbed by
>    EPUB4 coming 1 year or so after…
>    - On the side of Reading Systems, *EPUB3.2 deployment still suffer
>    from issues of interoperability*, bugs. There is an urgent need of
>    testing for all features and bug fixing.
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>    1. *BG priorities for the WG*
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> On Tuesday morning, the *Working Group F2F had a session with the
> Business Group* (Liisa and I, co-chairs) asking for *priorities*.
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> This moment was rich and *disruptive.* It did generate a lot of
> discussions during the following days with the active presence of W3C
> management, Ralf Swick (COO) and Jeff Jaffé (CEO).
>
> Our Japanese friend Makoto did participate by mail (he read the minutes),
> and Laurent Le Meur from EDRLab brought also serious propositions. On
> Wednesday evening, we ended up in a VIP meeting room with Ralph, Liisa,
> Dave and I to try to wrap up.
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> In the discussions, 2 important items for the publishing industry were
> brought up on the table:
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>    - *The industry desperately need a real standard for audiobooks* and
>    EPUB3 isn’t able to do the job
>    - *The Asian publishers need absolutely an EPUB3 ISO standard *and
>    EPUB3.2 is not recognized as a community group note
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>    1. *Propositions*
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> To summarize: *we envision to make EPUB3.2 a W3C recommendation* !
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>    - *The Working Group will still work on WP with an emphasis on an
>    application to audiobooks as soon as possible*
>       - EPUB4 will be postponed and its name less pronounced
>    - *The Working Group will also work in parallel to make EPUB 3.2 a W3C
>    REC*
>       - There will be no technical change in the EPUB3.2 note from the CG
>       - The charter of the PWG has to be changed to enable EPUB3.2 REC
>       track in parallel to WP
>          - This will take some time and may fail if formal objections are
>          not resolved (need anticipation)
>          - Testing is key : each feature of EPUB has to be implemented in
>          at least 2 Reading System
>       - *The Community Group will work already on interoperability
>    (testing, gathering of bugs, etc)*
>       - This work will fulfill the need of testing for the REC track
>    - *The Business Group will explain to the Publishing industry the
>    global reasons*
>       - Technical: improve interoperability and bug fixing
>       - Political: a W3C REC has more power on Reading System developers
>       - Internationalization:  the ISO standard for Asian people will be
>       adopted from W3C REC
>          - it will not be a rewriting by ISO (with a risk of differences)
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> On behalf of PBG co-chairs,
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> Luc Audrain
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> [0]
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=W3C+PBG+Meeting+&iso=20181106T12&p1=179&ah=1
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> [1] https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/publ-wg/Meetings/gotomeetings
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> [2] https://www.w3.org/publishing/epubcheck_fundraising
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kamata@voyager.co.jp

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