Re: GATF colour management conference
Re: GATF colour management conference
- Subject: Re: GATF colour management conference
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:41:29 +0100
By way of winding down this thread, then to me the long and short of
the concept of a conference on the ICC framework, how different
vendors implement it, and how real world workflows can be built that
navigate the bugs and implementation differences, is a web-based
event.
The event is open and free of charge. Speakers submit industry
overview articles. Attendees debate threads.
The point is that there is no lack of information about this subject.
But there is a lack of checkable and open information about this
subject.
It all depends on what the point is. If the point is to move
mindsets, then the web wins hands down.
A conference is not like a trade show. To put the basics across, the
web is fine. To demo product takes space and booths and architects
and how knows what.
What the US folks on the List seem to me to be saying is that a
certification scheme is only valid to the extent that those who back
the technology and have demonstrated knowledge of how it works also
back the certification scheme.
What GATF seems to me to be saying is that a certification scheme is
valid because GATF owns the certification scheme. Which is a Lewis
Carroll argument.
GATF can still make money on its certification scheme, but only by
making the certification scheme the indusputably best source of
information on the ICC framework and how to implement it. This
intention isn't realized by a costly private conference with its
sessions and luncheons and dinners and outings and hotels and airfare.
It's realized by publishing, and publishing is always about copying
the largest possible number of people. Publishing the technology
basics. And publically demonstrating how to implement them to best
advantage.
In sociological terms, the US conflict is basically over legitimacy.
The List folks feel they are being asked to lend legitimacy to GATF
with absolutely nothing in return. That was a foreseeable predicament
from day one.
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Henrik Holmegaard
TechWrite, Denmark