Agenda for WebFonts WG meeting (Nov. 1-2)

Hello WebFonts WG,

For our meeting next week please see below the proposed agenda. Any additional topics and your comments are welcome.

1. Preparation for Evaluation Report:

-          Review WOFF 2.0 proposal;

-        Review existing test cases / fonts used / Unicode coverage to determine if any additional preliminary test are needed to produce Evaluation report;

-        Eval. Report editor?
2. Planning for WOFF 2.0 spec work:

-          WOFF 2.0 file format:

·         Review the proposal from Google: http://wiki.font-compression-reference.googlecode.com/git/img/WOFFUltraCondensedfileformat.pdf


-          Preprocessing step:

·         Review existing MicroType Express spec to determine if/what parts can be reused for WOFF 2.0: http://www.w3.org/Submission/MTX/


-          Entropy coding:

·         Review existing LZMA specifications to determine if an additional spec work is necessary:

ftp://ftp.ulakbim.gov.tr/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/external/public-domain/xz/dist/doc/lzma-file-format.txt


http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format.txt


-          Spec editor(s)?

-          Work plan / target dates / deliverables
3. WOFF 2.0 CTS development

-          Reference implementations

-          Tools (sfntly?)

-          CTS timeline / target dates / contributors
4. Font media type registration

-          Current plans to register font-related types as part of “application” tree (W3C “application/font-woff”, ISO “application/font-sfnt”)

-          Recent discussions of registering top-level “font” type:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2012JulSep/0019.html


-          Decision on filing for top-level “font” type – need/justification, expected efforts, timeline?
 5. AOB

Looking forward to seeing you all at TPAC next week.

Thank you,
Vlad