ISO committees (TC 171 SC 2)

This coming November the ISO committees for PDF, PDF/A, PDF/UA, PDF/E and XFDF will once again gather in-person in Basel, Switzerland for a full week of meetings.

Key subjects on the table include:

ISO 32000 (WG 8)

This committee will review comments against the 2nd DIS (Draft International Standard) of PDF 2.0. This is, hopefully, the 2nd to last in-person meeting before the standard is complete!

ISO 14289 (WG 9)

The PDF/UA committee will continue development of PDF/UA-2 along the lines established in two previous in-person meetings. Highlights of PDF/UA-2:

• It’s based on ISO 32000-2, and thus leverages the PDF 2.0 tagset, namespaces, structured destinations and other advanced accessibility features in PDF 2.0.
• A tight focus on PDF technology, reducing content-level requirements to improve integration with accessibility standards that regulate content such as WCAG 2.0.

ISO 19005 (WG 5)

The PDF/A committee will discuss a new Part for ISO 19005 to use PDF 2.0. Various other possibilities will be considered.

ISO 24517 (PDF/E)

Essentially complete, this standard awaits ratification of PDF 2.0. The committee will also discuss the relationship with PDF/A.

Attending the meetings

PDF Association members who wish to attend should contact the Chairman (Olaf Drümmer) or Executive Director (Duff Johnson) directly for accreditation via the PDF Association’s liaison with ISO TC 171 SC 2.

For those who participate via their respective country’s TC 171 member body organization, you need to be accredited and entered into ISO’s Global Database prior to attending. Contact Betsy Fanning at AIIM (secretariat for ISO TC 171 until 2017) for more information.