Information about the meeting, including participation registration information, had been made available at http://sc29busan.org/main/main.php.
Participants had been reminded of the need to be properly qualified to attend. Interested parties had been instructed to contact the JVT management team if they sought clarification of what proper qualification entails or if they needed help learning how to obtain such qualification.
JVT document registration and contribution archiving followed ordinary JVT practices.
Requests to register documents were handled by email to Gary Sullivan (gary.sullivan@ties.itu.int or garysull@microsoft.com).
The JVT work was suspended during plenary sessions of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) parent body.
The first JVT meeting session for this meeting was held at approximately 4:30 p.m. on Monday October 13, 2008. Further meetings were held on Wednesday October 15 and Thursday October 16. Some of the discussions on Wednesday October 15 were held jointly with the WG 11 parent body. The primary business was concluded in the afternoon of Thursday October 16. Formal approval of resolutions and available output documents was conducted jointly with the video part of the WG 11 parent body on the morning of Friday October 17.
