Re: SVG Glyphs in OpenType specification: action required!

Hello Adam,

Thursday, October 17, 2013, 4:43:15 PM, you wrote:

> So in a nutshell, expressing the "commitment" essentially means that we
> stop working on the SVG-in-OT spec in the "SVG in OpenType community 
> group" and the work will be (hopefully, presumably) picked up by OFF, 
> where further work on this will be done -- correct?

Exactly. Community Groups produce specifications but they don't
produce standards.

> In a way, this is similar to where Microsoft or Apple etc. prepares a 
> proposal internally and then submits it to the OFF for further 
> discussion.

Yes, except this one was produced by an open consensus process between
multiple companies; and it comes with some patent protection licensing
that includes RAND but extends it to include 'no fee and no written
license'

> In this case, the community group was like Microsoft or
> Apple, i.e. this has been an "internal" discussion and proposal so far
> -- but once we all sign off on it here in the community group, someone
> (W3C?) can submit that proposal to OFF. Right?

W3C will indeed submit it.

> If that's the case, I'm happy to recommend everyone to "express 
> commitment", so we can move the discussion and the proposal into the 
> more formalized place (OFF, that is).

Thanks.

As of right now we have licensing commitments from 7 of the 18
participants. For W3C Member companies the commitment is made by the
Advisory Committe representative on behalf of all participants from
that company. So for example I understand that Adobe is working on
this and they have six participants, so that commitment would take the
total to 13 out of 18.

http://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype/spec/63/commitments



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Best regards,
 Chris                            mailto:chris@w3.org

Received on Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:05:03 UTC