RE: The Balkanization of VRML

Jan Hardenbergh ([email protected])
Wed, 28 Jun 95 12:30:00 E

>> I submit a formal question: If Open Inventor is to be an ISO/ANSI
standard
>> candidate, and VRML is to be a W3C standard, how are these
>> to be aligned, by whom, and with
>> submitting, s"

I believe the statement that Open Inventor has been selected as the
basis for the 3D Metafile effort that is starting in ISO is true.
In the past, it has taken anywhere from years to a decad> to complete
an ISO standard.

There is also the case of the X window system which spent years
in the ISO, only to have it fail in the final approval process.

Someone claimed that VRML would be covered by the 3DM standard.
We should hope that there will be a few people who are involved in
both activities and can make that claim stay true. Currently, both SGI
and TGS are involved in both. I get some of the mail.

If you are interested in participating, the chair of the group is
"John C. Gebhardt" <[email protected]> and I am sure
Steve Carson <[email protected]> can

I'm participating in a panel at SIGGRAPH about standards and whether
the standards process works.

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