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Recent drafts do tend to get circulated amongst the image compression community. For wide audiences I don't think this type of document is very readable nor rel
by jonsneyers 4y ago
Recent drafts do tend to get circulated amongst the image compression community. For wide audiences I don't think this type of document is very readable nor relevant; the number of people who are going to make their own independent implementation is relatively small. In this sense the spec audience is not quite the same as that of a spec for a programming language, which is important not just for compiler implementers but also for programmers in general.
That said, I do hope that ISO will change its policy to put specs behind a paywall.
- Mindless2112 4y agoAny chance of publishing the spec with ECMA in addition to ISO? The C# spec is both an ECMA and an ISO standard, but it started with ECMA.
- jonsneyers 4y agoAs one of the authors of the spec, I would be open to also publishing it with another standardization organization that makes specs publicly available, if the legal issues can somehow be sorted out. I think the other spec authors would also be open to that. We certainly have no desire to have a spec that is behind a paywall; that is just the way ISO operates, unfortunately.