Response to edmund roland....
Response to edmund roland....
- Subject: Response to edmund roland....
- From: "tom lianza" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:59:24 -0500
Roland,
"Good luck trying to wake up the ICC. I should know, I've been a member
for 3 years or so.
It's turned into a very sleepy private club."
The fact that you are a member doesn't imply that you know anything about
the organization. One of the key issues about being a member is actually
participating. Had you actually bothered attending a recent meeting, you
would note that the fact that Microsoft hasn't attended a meeting for a few
years and Apple was not the last meeting in San Antonio. We are more than
awake, we are actively working with the PDFX community and other
organizations to insure interoperability in the areas that need addressing.
We have the mechanism in the current specification to physically manage Jan
Peter's request. This should be manageable with the new Dictionary Tag
which offers rapid additions of needed data slugs to small segments of the
market without forcing a wholesale change in the ISO specification process.
Personally,I am not following this in detail because there are members who
have far greater knowledge and specific talents in this area.
As a consortium we have a fiduciary responsibility to respond to the needs
of members so in one very small sense, we are a private club. On the other
hand, any member can propose a change, and it will be normally be considered
and implemented. What we cannot do is take the next great idea on the
colorsync forum, demand implementation by the membership and break their
products or force upgrades. Another thing we cannot do is to make members
"behave". If one of the members has a broken pipeline, we cannot demand
they fix it. You are a member, you can write up a formal proposal, send it
to the steering committee and it will get on the agenda. The ICC is no
private club, your proposal can be in the interest of a non-member
organization. Since I have been chairman, I have tried to make sure that
all agendas are published well in advance of the upcoming meetings and that
the reports from each meeting is published for all members in a timely
fashion. If you log on to the member section, you can review each committee
and each agenda item. Committee reports from San Antonio are in technical
review and will be up on the members section before the end of the year.
As a member, nothing prevents you from sharing any information in the
members only area, with a non-member. The only thing you cannot do is use
the information in a publication without prior approval.
There is no problem getting Jan-Peter's work into the organization. He is
well respected in the industry and he asking for changes that are probably
needed by the industry, but we do need confirmation and agreement from the
market place and we do need people to work on those changes. If you have
any constructive suggestions, send them to the steering committee at
email@hidden. With any luck someone will be awake to
respond to you...
Tom Lianza,
Chairman ICC.
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