Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!dftsrv!mimsy!nrl-cmf!buck From: buck@nrl-cmf.UUCP (Loren Buchanan) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: International Standard for Image Processing and Interchange (IPI) Summary: ASC X3H3 Message-ID: <292@ra.nrl-cmf.UUCP> Date: 30 May 91 12:10:34 GMT Reply-To: buck@caligula.nrl.navy.mil (Loren Buchanan) Distribution: na Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC Lines: 38 In article alien@essex.ac.uk ("Adrian F Clark") writes: >There are likely to be several levels of conformance to the standard, >and the API in particular, but the mechanism for achieving this has >not yet been discussed. At the latest X3H3.8 meeting (the U.S. organization that developed PIK) there was some discussion of how the API should be partitioned. If you have some suggestions for how it should be done, you can send them to me, and I will forward the suggestions to X3H3.8. Currently we have two levels of conformance, a core or base level, and the other is every thing. Exactly what is in the base level has yet to be determined. Also to be determined is if their are any other levels. Other key areas of PIK to be hammered out is error handling, synchronous/asynchronous control mechanisms, chaining, and language bindings. >and a timetable for the development of the standard was laid out. >Most of the standard will be written, distributed for comment, and >edited in 1991; trial implementations and further editiing will take >place during 1992-3. The final International Standard is timetabled >for early 1994. (Be warned, however, that such timetables almost >invariably slip somewhat.) This schedule is very agressive, but is still possible. My gut feeling is that it will slip. Don't ask me how much. If you are interested in getting involved with the development of IPI (CIA, PIK, or IIF) and work in the U.S. you can contact me for more information about X3H3.8 like who our officers are, the groups history, etc. I am a charter member of X3H3.8 and am currently the Issues Librarian. B Cing U Buck -- Loren Buchanan (buck@caligula.nrl.navy.mil) | #include NRL Code 5842, 4555 Overlook Ave. | #include Washington, DC 20375 (202) 767-3884 | #include Phone tag, America's fastest growing business sport.