Hi, Jonathan—

This is a great standards story that I didn’t know about. How interesting that JPEG is a joint committee of ISO/IEC JTC 1 (already a joint committee itself) and ITU-T (then CCITT)!  Thanks for sharing!

JoAnne

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And another example of reaching out to a wider community:  

https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history

Stay sane,

Jonathan

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