really well done
exposed to the user community
stable
and the UK profile specifiers have to make a clear statement about
inclusion (or otherwise) of the results.
It seems to me that the quality of the work is likely to be enhanced as
a result of the rollout and ISO should be able to respond to that
somehow, but continued transparency is vital.
David
In message <9107AF33506DD211BA6200A024A67EBE2DCF@GRIMBERGEN>, Xavier
MARIE <xavier.marie@cril.com> writes
>Klaus wrote:
>
>>Please note the following: The contributions you may want to make may
>be
>>considered, but there is no obligation for this due to the ISO
>>procedures. It depends on the ISO working group how this late-material
>>would be considered.
>
>Considering such late material is most likely even
>_against_ the ISO procedures, as it does not allow
>all interested parties to review changes before they
>are approved.
>
>If WG12 (i.e. a small number of people) accepts to consider
>such late material, and assuming they miss something
>(if they had been infaillible no corrigendum would be needed, right?),
>then any of you who does not attend WG12 might discover on Dec. 14
>that due to some newly introduced "clarification" posted
>on Friday afternoon
>your formerly compliant application/engine/set-top-box
>has become no longer compliant even though
>you didn't change a word of it,
>and that there is nothing you can do against it any longer.
>
>The minimum that WG12 should feel pressed to do in
>such a case is to circulate the final text among the users
>community so as to make sure nobody feels injured by
>any of the late changes. This would only delay final approval
>(a formal stage which makes little difference as to the
>publicity of the document) by one month, as WG12
>has a further meeting mid-January.
>
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