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Fig. 13 – Cover and “Read me” page of JPEG-8 revision 8 – the input document to CCITT SGVIII and ISO/IEC JTC1 SC2 for the formal
approval process and to the IJG for OSS implementation
It was then rather incidental that the JPEG-8 specification was picked up from the USA JTC1 member body
ANSI by Tom Lane who had founded the IJG. The aim was to take the JPEG specification, develop an open
source code and make it available to everyone free of charge.
This occurred completely independently of the JPEG committee and the parent SDOs. At that time, the JPEG
committee hardly knew what OSS was and nothing about the IJG.

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