Re: ITU T.171

 Yup, the standard I was referring to is MHEG alright. As for ODA, I heard
 it called worse things, and I partially agree. However, there is a lot to
 be said for an architecture that is thought out in advance...

 Yuval


> From lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk  Tue Mar  7 21:45:37 1995
> Subject: Re: ITU T.171
>
> Yuval Shahar writes:
> 
> >  Apparently there is an ISO standard dealing with hypermedia 
> 
> There are several, and more coming out all the time ;-) All the ISO
> committees want to do multimedia!
> 
> > (13522), which I was unaware of until it was recently submitted to 
> > ITU SG8 (as a draft rec for T.171).
> 
> What is the title of this ISO standard? It sounds like it could be MHEG
> from your description.
> 
> >  Has anyone in www-land studied this document in the context of the Web? Is
> >  anyone aware of conforming applications? 
> 
> Not me.
> 
> > Does anyone have a URL for HyperODA (the ODA extensions for hypermedia)
> 
> Oh come on, ODA is a Dodo.
> 
> > and SMSL (the ISO hypermedia oriented scripting language)?
> 
> Heard of it, not used it. If you are interested in the interaction between
> ISO-standards and The Real World ™ I suppose you have looked into PREMO?
> 
>   <http://www.cwi.nl/Premo/>
>   
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