Standards Column Steve Carson, GSC Associates Inc. This column is devoted to describing a new ISO standards effort called PREMO. PREMO (presentation environment for multimedia objects) is an emerging standard for the development of multimedia applications which has been under preparation in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 for several years, and is now approaching maturity. The need for a coordinated method for addressing all aspects of the construction of, presentation of and interaction with multimedia objects led to the need for the development of this standard. By multimedia we mean objects consisting of still computer graphics, moving computer graphics (animation), synthetic graphics of all types, audio, still images, moving images (including video), images coming from imaging operations and any other content type or combination of content types that can be "presented." As a consequence of a recent international vote in JTC 1, PREMO has now been approved as an official ISO/IEC project and has been assigned to working group 6 of SC 24. Industrial firms, research agencies and universities, mainly from US and Europe, have contributed actively to PREMO in the past and continue to participate in increasing numbers. Several other standards bodies and expert groups have also expressed
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