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Agenda

Discussion with Stephen Levenson, an IT Specialist for Policy and Planning at the Office of the US Courts and the chair of the PDF/A working group.

Participants

Don Chalfant, Kate Murray, Sheila Morrissey, Kevin DeVorsey, Chris Dietrich, Carl Fleischhauer, Stephen Levenson, Butch Lazorchak

Meeting Notes

Stephen on how standards are implemented in the ISO community.

PDF/A-3 doesn't necessarily replace A-1 or A-2. Should be able to use a PDF/A-1 file 30 years from now. The methodology used should not change for rendering these files in the future.

PDF/A movement highly influenced by manufacturers, now PDF/A center, dominated by the Germans. Had many use cases for instances where creators wanted to include the original files wihtin a PDF/A document.

Brazilian government wanted to preserve their material as XML but XML wasn't trusted by users because of complexity. Wanted to make a more presentation-ready format but didn't want to throw away the XML.