STAN DAR DS P I PE L! N E Standards W o r k Intensifies with Creation of Business Teams George S. Carson GSC Associates major role over the next few years.These include: I. The standardization of Internet protocols and interfaces to provide effective 2D and 3D graphical interaction. Continuing w o r k on VRML and new w o r k on PNG are examples where SC24 is already working successfully. Many more are in the early stages of exploration at the management level with SC24's partners, includingW3C. 2. The development of effective multivendor, cross-platform cross-application data interchange formats that combine data objects and meta-data for interchange.This is a major focus of the Imaging and Graphics Business Team that is described in more detail later in this column. 3. C o n t i n u e to s u p p o r t the VRML community by working in partnership with the VRML consortium to evolve the base VRML standard and to advance other elements of VRML technology to International Standards as they mature. SC 24, in cooperation with other JTC I SCs - - notably SC 29, has started a new activity called the
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