Message from the Executive Director: SMPTE Making Progress in New Areas

Back in March 2016, I devoted my column to explaining why there is a difference between standards and industry specifications. You see, the industry has for years conflated the two forms of work, which only serves to confuse. My goal was to highlight why an industry gets together to form standards and why specifications have a useful, but different, purpose. Fast forward to July 2017 when SMPTE and the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) announced a project to develop a pilot specifications project. Yes, SMPTE would be entering the specifications business.