This paper discusses two color-management ideas whose time may have come: the use of image context in a color-management system (CMS); and a procedure for checking the effectiveness of a CMS with minimal recourse to the assumptions underlying the CMS itself. Both these ideas use color transforms, in different ways. The content-based CMS idea was introduced four years ago, based on finding the minimum color difference through a simple metric. A new metric derived from a vision model is now introduced. Color verification should also involve color transforms, to accommodate different white points. A procedure is described for such verification, which uses an illuminant/reflectance model to define error-free color transmission.