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Subject: RE: [dita] DITA goes Nuclear?
I've always envisioned a DITA archive like the CPAN archive for Perl (http://cpan.org/). Could OASIS set up a site like that? If not, could something like that be hosted on sourceforge? Seraphim Larsen Intel Corporation * ECG TechComm Chandler, AZ * (480) 552-6504 My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. -----Original Message----- From: Ogden, Jeff [mailto:jogden@ptc.com] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:18 AM To: Eliot Kimber; dita Subject: RE: [dita] DITA goes Nuclear? Eliot, I agree with the comments from both of your e-mails on this topic. Is there a good place for people and organizations to informally share new specializations? Part of the DITA area on xml.org? That might be a way to encourage sharing of DITA specializations that are not formally standardized. It might be a good way to share early versions of new specializations before they become standardized as well. If the specializations don't need to be formally standardized, would the DITA Adoption TC be a better forum for encouraging this sort of thing than the DITA TC with its focus on standards development? -Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:05 PM > To: dita > Subject: Re: [dita] DITA goes Nuclear? > > On 11/4/08 5:01 PM, "Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@reallysi.com> wrote: > > > On 11/4/08 3:10 PM, "Robert D Anderson" <robander@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > >> So - is there anybody on the TC interested in working on a > specialization > >> for the nuclear industry? If so, we can set up a subcommittee to start > work > >> based on what has already been done. If so, please send a note briefly > >> describing your interest level (observer vs active participant). If > you'd > >> rather not send directly to the list at this point, you can send to me > and > >> I'll collect responses; if you do that, please also copy Don Day, as > I'll > >> be offline some of the next week and want to be sure I don't miss any > >> notes. > > > > While I'm sure such a specialization is quite valuable and it's exciting > to > > see this type of activity happening, I worry that we are starting to set > a > > precedent by which every community of interest that might find DITA > useful > > wants to be a subcommittee. > > > > I don't think that's either necessary or productive in the long run. > DITA is > > expressly designed to enable unilateral extension that does not need to > be > > coordinated with the base standard in order to be both reliably > > interchangeable and potentially useful as a standard in its own right. > > > > There's absolutely no reason that something like a nuclear industry > > specialization couldn't be developed as a completely separate effort > within > > whatever standards community serves the nuclear power industry. > > Michael Priestly pointed out privately that there might be communities of > interest that do not have an existing standards-making body that could > host > a DITA specialization standard, in which case the DITA TC would be a > natural > home. I agree completely. > > My main intent is that it's clear to the DITA community at large that > standardization within the DITA TC is not a *requirement* for standardized > DITA specialization, nor is standardization within OASIS a requirement. > > For example, if the Air Transport Association wanted to define an > aircraft-industry-specific set of specializations, it would make sense for > the ATA to host that activity--no need for it to be done under the TC just > because it happens to be a DITA-based XML application. > > Cheers, > > Eliot > > ---- > Eliot Kimber | Senior Solutions Architect | Really Strategies, Inc. > email: ekimber@reallysi.com <mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com> > office: 610.631.6770 | cell: 512.554.9368 > 2570 Boulevard of the Generals | Suite 213 | Audubon, PA 19403 > www.reallysi.com <http://www.reallysi.com> | http://blog.reallysi.com > <http://blog.reallysi.com> | www.rsuitecms.com <http://www.rsuitecms.com> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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