ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34/WG2 N03

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34/WG2

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TITLE: Disposition of comments on DTR 15413
SOURCE: SC34/WG2
PROJECT: JTC1.34.33
PROJECT EDITOR: Toru Takasawa and Y. Komachi
STATUS: Document for Granada meeting
ACTION:
DATE: 1999-04-19
DISTRIBUTION: SC34 and Liaisons
REFER TO: JTC1 N5631
REPLY TO: SC34 N0056


Disposition of comments on DTR 15413

1. Canada

(1) In section 4.1 change all instance of "people" to "person(s)". There are two reasons for this:

Accepted.

(2) In 7.6.2 the license information appears to be insufficiently specified and, in a distributed environment, is of paramount importance.

Accepted.

(3) "Put License Specification" needs only to be permitted by the font designer or vendor, we suspect, or maybe by an installation program.

Accepted.

(4) 32-bit numbers are not adequate for the license expiry date, because of the year 2038 problem.

Accepted.

(5) It's not clear how a client of this protocol finds all fonts matching certain criteria, such as "with glyphs available to support rendering all of the abstract characters defined in iso 8859-7". Is it influenced by the X Font server?

The range of "find" is the range where FindFontResource specifies the PropertyList of ISO/IEC 9541-1. In the development of this TR, the X Font server was reviewed.

(6) How does this specification interact with the W3C work on Open Type and web fonts?

There is no official liaisonship with the W3C activities.

2. UK

(1) The UK does not have the appropriate expertise to comment on the technical content of DTR 15413. The UK notes that the former draft standard is proposed for publication as a Technical Report Type 1, which the UK considers appropriate for the publication of potentially useful information that cannot be given the status of International Standard. The text circulated needs editing to remove incorrect references to the document as 'this International Standard' in clauses 4.3 and 6.

Accepted.

(2) The UK requests that information giving the historical background and an explanation of the reasons why JTC1 has considered it necessary to publish a TR instead of an IS is included in the Scope statement to avoid possible misinterpretation of the status of the requirements contained in the Technical Report. Provision of this information is specified in Clause of 15.2.4 of the Procedures for the technical work of ISO/IEC JTC 1 on Information Technology: "15.2.4 Contents of Type 1 and Type 2 TRs TRs of types 1 and 2 shall contain the following parts: historical background; explanation of the reasons why JTC 1 has considered it necessary to publish a TR instead of an IS; technical content."

Accepted.