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From: zben@ni.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
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Subject: Re: PD image compression
Summary: Info on JPEG enclosed
Keywords: Image Compression
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Date: 4 Apr 91 20:32:01 GMT
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On page 49 of the April MacUser there is a nice little blurb on JPEG and
some product announcements.  Radius has a software product called ImpressIt.
Storm Technology has PicturePress and the PicturePress Accelerator.

I called Storm up and they were very helpful, including faxxing me a letter
from the chair of X3L2.8 about the standardization effort.  Evidently JPEG
is being standardized by an ISO/IEC working group in picture coding and a
CCITT special rapporteur group on image communication.  This contact lead to
a phone conversation with Lynn Barra of X3 Secretariat/CBEMA.

The working group X3L2.8 has been promoted to a full committee X3L3.  The
chair is C. F. Touchton at IBM.  The JPEG Draft Technical Spec is now at
revision 8 version 8 and is available for $8.00 payable by check, money order,
or credit card (I just ordered it by visa).  The contact person is Lynn Barra
at (202) 626-5738 voice or (202) 638-4922 fax.

Or mail to the following specifying "Attention: JPEG Draft Technical Spec":

X3 Secretariat: Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturer's Association
311 First Street NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC   20001-2178

Lynn says she hopes to have MPEG (moving picture standard) within a few weeks
and MPIG (???) by this summer.

I have no business relationship with any of this stuff.  It's just that after
some years of running an Internet to Bitnet mail relay I have a great deal
of respect for the standards process and what they are trying to do...