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Doc. No.: PR/97-132
Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us
Washington D.C., October 1997 - NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards is announcing the public comment period for ISO/IEC DIS 14478-3. The public review extends from October 10, 1997 to December 9, 1997.
This Part of ISO/IEC 14478 defines a standard set of multimedia system services that can be used by multimedia application developers in a variety of computing environments. The focus is on enabling multimedia applications in a heterogeneous, distributed computing environment. Throughout this document this Part of ISO/IEC 14478 will also be referred to as "Multimedia System Services", and abbreviated as MSS.
Note: This draft international standard is being processed simultaneously as an American National Standard and an International Standard.
Public Review Comment Instructions:
To facilitate speedy consideration of comments, please submit them via email to (ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us). In addition, all public review comments must include name, company name, address, telephone number, and email address if applicable.
The public review period closes on December 9, 1997. However, in order for comments to affect the position of the U.S. TAG, they must be received prior to November 7, 1997. Therefore, all commentors are urged to submit comments as early in the public review period as possible. Public review comments received after November 7, 1997 will be addressed and considered for future balloting and/or revision.
Submit all comments to: NCITS Secretariat, Attn.: Deborah J. Donovan,
1250 EyeStreet, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005,
Email: ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us.
Send a copy to: ANSI, Attn.: BSR Center, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
10036 (wluk@ansi.org)
A call for possible patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is also being issued. Please submit information on these issues to the NCITS Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005. Email: NCITS@itic.nw.dc.us FAX: (202) 638-4922.
The document is available for $110.00 (plus shipping, handling, & tax) from: American National Standards Institute, 11 W. 42nd St., New York, NY 10036, 212-642-4900.
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