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

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> On Nov 6, 2018, at 2:08 AM, AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr> wrote:
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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:
> Back from TPAC Lyon 2018
> EPUB3 Roadmap: plan to promote EPUB3.2 as W3C REC
> See my report below
> Questions, comments, objections ?
> PBG has to give a position before the end of November
> 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:
> 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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> 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.
> 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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> 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.
> 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:
> 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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> 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,
> 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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