[Accessibility] 21 May 2003 meeting agenda

[Janina Sajka]

iHi, Mario:

Thank you for your note. I would encourage you, as I encourage others,
that the scope of our work is so large that it likely exceeds the
knwoledge of most any one single individual. So, please do not feel you
have nothing to contribute just because the discussion may, at times, be
on subjects that are not those where you have expertise. We really do
need a breadth of expertise to cover our scope, and we value your help.

Regarding SMIL, I don't know what you've heard and would like to
know--if you can point to anything specific. I am charged by our group
with chasing down the facts about SMIL. I will report on this in June.
Meanwhile, may I suggest there may be confusion about SMIL and VXML? It
seems SMIL is purely a W3C recommendation. It comes under W3C terms
fully.

Perhaps the most clarifying thing I can tell you by way of explanation
is that SMIL does not incorporate or refer specifically to any media
format. It is format agnostic. It is a spec for syncronizing among many
formats--whichever ones someone may choose to use.

Hope this helps.


Mario Lang writes:
> From: Mario Lang <mlang at debian.org>
> 
> Hi.
> 
> First of all I'd like to apologize for my absence
> in the last few meetings.  Personally time-difficulties and
> my feeling that I can't help much anyway in voice-calls 
> prevented me from participating.
> 
> I'll try to be on the line next week though.
> 
> I'd like to raise a question before that though:
> Does the LSB have any guidelines on which licenses a API should
> be licensed under to be acceptable for a LSB standard?  I'm asking
> this since Debian has very strict guidelines on what is
> free, and what isn't.  For software to be accepted into the main
> distribution, it needs to meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
> 
> So, for Debian to be compliant to whatever API standards we
> are going to propse, that code needs to be free enough.
> 
> I ask this since I read about potential problems with SMIL.
> IANAL, and I didn't really check the exact concerns yet,
> but I thought its better to raise this issue now than later.
> 
> -- 
> CYa,
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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