Nicolas Spalinger (SIL, Open Font Library) reports: "The W3C Web Fonts Working Group has now been chartered to work on refining and standardizing the WOFF format."

Nicolas goes on to say:

It's worth noting that other formats and delivery mechanisms are out-of-scope. We'll see how the WG participants and the community discuss the issues on the public mailing list.

The working group is chaired by Vladimir Levantovsky of Monotype Imaging.

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