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Re: GATF colour management conference
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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


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