The objective of this amendment is to extend the ITU-T Rec. T.88 | ISO/IEC 14492 ('JBIG2') standard for compression of bi-level images, currently specified in terms of compliant data streams and decoding, to also cover compliant encoding. In particular, this amendment:1) specifies a compliant architecture for JBIG2 encoding; and2)illustrates example encoding methods for each optional architecture component.