From: tom@asi.com (Tom Baker)
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
Subject: ISO standards
Date: 27 Jul 92 23:36:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: asi.1992Jul27.233615.5302
Organization: Adaptive Solutions, Inc.,  Beaverton Oregon

Several weeks ago I mailed a request for information on the ISO
standards on image processing and interchange.  I received three very
good mail replies.  It seems that it is available in Europe, but I can
not find a US source.  The lady at the ANSI ordering office could not
find the number.  I am including the messages that I received, but I
am not passing on some of the email contacts that they gave me.  I
will continue looking for a US source and send the information when I
find one.  Any additional information will be greatly appreciated.

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---------> The original post to sci.image.processing

> Here is a question that begs to be asked, and the responses put into a
> FAQ message.
> 
> While attending the SPIE/SPSE conference in San Jose last February I
> attended several presentations that gave information about a set of
> upcoming ISO Image Processing and Interchange standards.  The date
> that I remember was that a Comittee Draft would be released in March.
> 
> Have these documents released to the public, and if so how are they
> obtained?  I would assume that we in the US could get them from ANSII
> if they were available.  
> 
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.  Please respond directly
> to me and I will summarize to the net.  Thanks in advance.

---------> From: Arnold Bloemer

Its very fresh ! I just ordered the Draft from the following address:

Dr. Detlef Kroemker
Imaging Rapporteur
Fraunhofer AGD
Wilhelminenstr. 7
6100 Darmstadt
GERMANY

phone: +49-6151-155-140
FAX:   +49-6151-155-199

The draft is in 3 parts and amounts to 1100 pages. They take DM 150,-
for there copying costs.

I talked to the secretary of Dr. Kroemker about your posting. She tolds me
that you could connect her directly by telephone to discuss details about
delivery abroad.

Some weeks ago I discussed with Dr. Kroemker the issue whether it is possible
to make the Draft available on a ftpserver. He said that there are principal
problems because organizations like IEEE earn money by selling printed versions 
of standards.

If you see a possibility to make the standards available online I would be
very interested in.

Good Luck,

Arnold


Dipl.-Ing. Arnold Bloemer	   Universitaet Hannover
				   Institut fuer Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik
				   und Informationsverarbeitung
bloemer@tnt.uni-hannover.de        Appelstrasse 9A
fax:    +49-511-762-5333           D-3000 Hannover 1
phone:  +49-511-762-5320           Germany


---------> From: Jon Webb

The ISO standards are the Programmer's Imaging Kernel System.  They
are currently being reviewed in the US by ANSI committee X3H3.8, the
next meeting of which is being held in Lowell, MA, August 10-12.  I
don't know if the document is available publicly yet.   The only
public reference I have to this work is 

@article[StepAboutPIK,
	 key=Stephenson,
	 title="About PIK: The Programmer's Imaging Kernel Standard",
	 author="Stephenson, T.",
	 journal="Advanced Imaging",
	 pages="20, 22, 77",
	 year=1990,
	 month=August,
	 volume=5,
	 number=6]

---------> From: Christof Blum

Dear Tom, 

responding to your question in sci.image.processing:

the committee drafts of all three parts of the IPI standard,
namely the Common Architecture for Imaging (CAI), the
Programmer's Imaging Kernel System (PIKS) and the Image
Interchange Facility (IIF) are available since May 1992.
The official ISO numbers are 12087-1, 12087-2, and 12087,
respectively.
Usually, standards documents can be obtained by the
national standardization bodies which is the ANSI in
your case.

Best regards,

             Christof Blum
             Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
             Wilhelminenstr. 7
             6100 Darmstadt
             Germany
             e-mail blum@igd.fhg.de

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