ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0070
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34
Information Technology ---
Document Description and Processing Languages
| TITLE: | Disposition of comments on DTR 15413 |
| SOURCE: | SC34/WG2 |
| PROJECT: | JTC1.34.33 |
| PROJECT EDITOR: | Toru Takasawa and Y. Komachi |
| STATUS: | Approved Disposition of Comments |
| ACTION: | For information |
| DATE: | 20 April 1999 |
| DISTRIBUTION: | SC34 and Liaisons |
| REFER TO: | |
| REPLY TO: | Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Chaiman) Lockheed Martin Energy Systems Information Management Services 1060 Commerce Park, M.S. 6480 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6480 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 423 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 423 574-0004 Network: [email protected] http://www.jtc1sc34.org/wg4/ ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/wg4/ |
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34/WG2 N03
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34/WG2
Information Technology --
Document Description and Processing Languages
-- Information Presentation
| 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:
- (1.1) consistency in terminology with definition 3.12 font service user: A person and/or application software that provides requests, or manages font information in a computer system or network"
- (1.2) The term "person(s)" covers both natural persons and legal persons as well as individuals and organizations. Use of the term "people" excludes organisations.
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.