ForewordISO (the International Organization for
Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical
Commission) form a specialized system for worldwide
standardization. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC
participate in the development of International Standards through
technical committees established by the respective organization
to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEC
technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest.
Other international organizations, governmental and
non-governmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in
the work. See http://www.iso.ch for information
on ISO and http://www.iec.ch for information
on IEC.
In the field of information technology, ISO
and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC
1. Draft International Standards adopted by the joint technical
committee are circulated to national bodies for voting.
Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at
least 75% of the national bodies casting a vote. See
http://www.iso.ch/meme/JTC1.html
for information on JTC 1.
International Standard ISO/IEC 14772 was prepared by Joint Technical
Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee 24,
Computer graphics and image processing, in collaboration with The
VRML Consortium, Inc. (http://www.vrml.org)
and the VRML moderated email list (www-vrml@vrml.org).
Amendment 1 to International Standard
ISO/IEC 14772-1:1997 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee
ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee 24,
Computer graphics and image processing, in collaboration
with The Web3D Consortium, Inc. (http://www.web3d.org) and the VRML
moderated email list (www-vrml@web3d.org).
ISO/IEC 14772 consists of the following part, under the general title Information technology -- Computer graphics and image processing -- The Virtual Reality Modeling Language:
Part 1: Functional specification and UTF-8 encoding.
Further parts will follow.
Annexes A to C form an integral part of this part of ISO/IEC 14772. Annexes D to F are for information only.
http://www.vrml.org/Specifications/VRML97/part1/foreword.html