From carson@siggraph.org Thu Jan 20 18:23:52 2000 Received: from mail.htg.net (mail.htg.net [209.136.26.18]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA96931 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:23:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from carson@siggraph.org) Received: from ctxlaptop.htg.net (pm3-4-211.htg.net [216.253.7.211] (may be forged)) by mail.htg.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA10970; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:20:03 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000120095425.01486ea0@siggraph.org> X-Sender: carson@siggraph.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:47:43 -0700 To: SC24@dkuug.dk, wg8@sedris.org From: Steve Carson Subject: Proposed change to SC 24 Scope Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" As you may know, the JTC 1 Plenary in Seoul, Republic of Korea, failed to approve a change in scope requested by SC 24 to cover the SEDRIS NPs that we expect to be approved shortly. Unfortunately the issue of SC 24 scope change got coupled to the results of an upcoming series of special meetings to discuss coordination of spatial standardization. The organizer of these meetings never intended that these two issues (SEDRIS and spatial coordination) become tightly coupled, especially since the one or two coordination meetings to be held may not be completed until the summer of 2000. In an effort to resolve this problem, the BSI created a position and submitted it to JTC 1 (JTC 1 N 6022) saying: "The UK supports the change in title and scope as proposed in J1N5940 subject to the qualification of the term 'environment representation' with the word 'synthetic' where it occurs in the document. The UK asks JTC 1 to initiate a 60 day letter ballot on the revised title and terms of reference as soon as possible." (The full contribution is reproduced below.) The JTC 1 Chairman has informed me that he wants a statement from SC 24 that we support the UK position and will accept the qualification "synthetic" added to "environment representation." Does any NB object to SC 24 telling JTC 1 that the proposed change is acceptable to us? If so, please let Jean Stride and myself know by Monday 24 January 2000 at 1700 UTC. If we hear no objections we will send the following statement to JTC 1: "ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 agrees with the UK National Body position in ISO/IEC JTC 1 N 6022 and in particular accepts replacing "environment representation" by "synthetic environment representation" in the proposed scope as originally stated in JTC 1 N 5940. SC 24 requests that JTC 1 initiate a 60 day letter ballot on the revised title and terms of reference as soon as possible." ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology ISO/IEC JTC 1 N 6022 DATE: 1999-12-22 REPLACES DOC TYPE: National Body Contribution TITLE: UK National Body Position on the New Title and Terms of Reference for JTC 1/SC 24 Proposed in JTC 1 N 5940 SOURCE: UK National Body PROJECT: STATUS: This contribution is circulated to JTC 1 members for information at this time. ACTION ID: FYI DUE DATE: DISTRIBUTION: P and L Members MEDIUM: DISKETTE NO.: NO. OF PAGES: 1 Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1, American National Standards Institute, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036; Telephone: 1 212 642 4932; Facsimile: 1 212 840 2298; Email: lrajchel@ansi.org UK Position in respect of the letter ballot on the new title and terms of reference of SC24 as proposed in J1N5940 The UK supports the change in title and scope as proposed in J1N5940 subject to the qualification of the term 'environment representation' with the word 'synthetic' where it occurs in the document. The UK asks JTC 1 to initiate a 60 day letter ballot on the revised title and terms of reference as soon as possible. The revised title and scope would be: Proposed new title and terms of reference for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 : Computer graphics, image processing and synthetic environmental representation Subcommittee Area of Work Area of Work: Standardization of interfaces, in windowed and non-windowed environments, for: - computer graphics - image processing - synthetic environmental representation - interaction with, and visual presentation of information Included are the following related areas: Related reference models; application specifications; functional specification; interchange formats; device interfaces; testing methods, registration procedures; presentation and support for creation of multimedia and hypermedia documents. Excluded: Character and image coding; coding of multimedia and hypermedia document interchange formats, JTC 1 work in user system interfaces and document presentation. Steve Carson Chair, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Computer Graphics and Image Processing --------------------------------------------------------- Steve Carson http://www.huntel.com/~carson/ GSC Associates http://www.gscassociates.com/ 5272 Redman Road phone:+1-505-521-7399; fax:+1-505-521-9321 Las Cruces, NM 88011 USA e-mail: carson@siggraph.org ---------------------------------------------------------