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ISO Fall 2021 Meetings

The fall 2021 PDF Week for ISO TC171 SC2 will be held virtually! PDF Association members may attend to help advance PDF, PDF/A, PDF/UA and more.

Registration for this event has not opened.

EVENT INFO

October 25, 2021 - November 5, 2021


All ISO TC171/SC2 meetings will be virtual.


Attendees must be registered in the ISO database. Members of the PDF Association wishing to attend should contact ISO Liaison Officer Dietrich von Seggern at Dietrich.seggern@pdfa.org.


ISO meeting


In late October and early November 2021, the ISO committees for PDF and related standards will gather virtually for several days of meetings.

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NOTE: There is no WG 6 at this time.

Working Group 5

ISO/NP Document management – 2D image formats

New project being proposed.

Discussion group reports

  • 2D Image Formats

Working Group 7

ISO/DTS 24064 (3D data streams conforming to STEP AP242)

Review use cases and the DTS ballot results.

ISO/AWI 14739-1 (3D use of Product Representation Compact (PRC) format)

Review plans to restart.

Discussion group reports

  • 14739-1 editing
  • glTF into ISO 32000

Working Group 8

ISO/DTS 32001, Document management – Portable Document Format – Extensions to Encryption and Hash Algorithm support in ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)

Review ballot results, comments.

ISO/DTS 32002, Document management – Portable Document Format – Extensions to digital signatures support in ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)

Review ballot results, comments.

ISO/NP/PDTS 32003 – Document management – Portable Document Format – Adding support of AES-GCM in PDF 2.0

Review ballot results, comments.

ISO/NP/PDTS  32004 – Document management – Portable Document Format – Integrity Protection in encrypted document in PDF 2.0

Review ballot results, comments.

ISO/NP/PAS 6912, Document management – Portable Document Format – Clarification for initial graphics state in ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)

Review ballot results, comments.

Discussion group reports

  • Encryption and Digital Signature
  • Variable Width Strokes in PDF 2.X
  • Secure PDF

Working Group 9

ISO/NP/WD 14289-2 – Document management applications – Electronic document file format enhancement for accessibility – Part 2: Use of ISO 32000-2 (PDF/UA-2)

Review ballot results, comments.

ISO/PDTS 32005 – Document management – Portable Document Format – PDF 1.7 and 2.0 namespace inclusion in ISO 32000-2

Review ballot results, comments.

Discussion group reports

  • Accessible Support for Navigation
  • Reconciling 1.7 and 2.0 namespaces
  • ARIA Beyond PDF/UA
  • Attributes
  • ISO 14289-2 editing

Working Group 10

ISO / NP PDTS 8621: Document management – Digital file format – Selection criteria

Review ballot results, comments.

Discussion group reports

  • File Format

Working Group 11

ISO/DTS 18759, Document management – Trusted storage sub-system (TSS) functional and technical requirements

Review ballot results, comments.

Working Group 12

ISO/CD 16684-4, Graphic technology – Extensible metadata platform (XMP) specification – Part 4: Use of XMP for semantic units

Review ballot results, comments.

Discussion group reports

  • 3D product metadata for PDF files
  • 16684-4 Editing

Attending the meetings

The meetings may be held virtually due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns. Attendance is available to members of the ISO WG or of the PDF Association at no charge, but registration is required. Teleconference access will also be provided to registered attendees.

PDF Association members who wish to attend should contact the PDF Association’s Liaison Officer, Dietrich von Seggern, directly for accreditation via the PDF Association’s liaison with ISO TC 171 SC 2. PDF Association members are entitled to review Committee documents prior to the meetings.

For those who participate via their respective country’s TC 171 member body organization, you must be accredited and entered into ISO’s Global Database prior to attending. Contact Betsy Fanning at the PDF Association, Inc. (secretariat for ISO TC 171 SC 2) for more information.


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