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Subject: RE: [dita] Changes in OASIS TC processes and when we can send the DITA 1.2 spec to OASIS for a vote
Obviously, I made a finger fumble and typed November in the
second list item; it should be “Thursday, 7 October
2010 – Wednesday 13 October 2010.” Best
regards, Kris Kristen
James Eberlein l DITA Architect and Technical
Specialist l SDL Structured Content Technologies Division l (t) + 1
(919) 682-2290 l keberlein@sdl.com Please
consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: Kristen Eberlein
[mailto:keberlein@sdl.com] Mary, if we want to withdraw our request for a 15-day review and
proceed with a CS approval and OS submission ballot, what would that entail?
Is the following an accurate lists of necessary steps, and would you be
available to help us meet those milestones? ·
We rescind our
motion for a 15-day review; request that OASIS sets up a ballot for us to
approve a committee specification and submit the committee specification to
OASIS for consideration as an OASIS standard. (We could set up an emergency
meeting for tomorrow, Wednesday, 6 October to accomplish this, if necessary.) ·
You expedite our
request and set up the ballot to run Thursday, 7 November 2010 – Wednesday 13
November 2010. ·
We have two days to
get all supporting materials to you; you work with us to ensure that the
submission is complete. ·
DITA 1.2 submitted to OASIS on November 1, for vote November
16-31. Best
regards, Kris Kristen
James Eberlein l DITA Architect and Technical
Specialist l SDL Structured Content Technologies Division l (t) + 1
(919) 682-2290 l keberlein@sdl.com Please
consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: Mary McRae
[mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org] Hi Michael, Package acceptance is one of the rules. All
specifications must conform to those rules, again, ensuring all OASIS
specifications are uniform in appearance and contain the required content. I am
sorry that the new DITA toolkit processing prepared by the TC did not include
the proper notices statement, but this cannot be taken as a fault of OASIS
staff. I think a four-and-a-half day turnaround (including a weekend) to
move an entire office, including a network, and get the new T1 connections up
and running was almost as good as we could have possibly hoped for. We are just
at the seven day mark with regard to the submission for a 15 day public review
and that includes a reprocessing on the part of the TC. I sincerely appreciate the desire of the TC to move
this as quickly as possible, and we will do everything within our power, and
our rules, to help you meet your goals. Unfortunately, that does not mean
disregarding those rules. I am still hoping to get the public review
announced today, although time is now running short. If the TC wishes to
withdraw that request and feels that there were no substantive changes made and
is instead ready to proceed with CS approval and OS submission ballot, please
let me know asap. All the best, Mary Mary P McRae Director, Standards Development Technical Committee Administrator Member Section Administrator OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org web: www.oasis-open.org twitter: @fiberartisan #oasisopen phone: 1.603.232.9090 Standards are like parachutes: they work best when they're open. On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Michael Priestley wrote:
· (a) Links
to the approved Committee Specification in the TC’s document repository, and
any appropriate supplemental documentation for the specification, both of which
must be written using the OASIS templates. The specification may not have been
changed between its approval as a Committee Specification and its submission to
OASIS for consideration as an OASIS Standard, except for the changes on the
title page and running footer noting the approval status and date. · (b) The
editable version of all files that are part of the Committee Specification;
· (c)
Certification by the TC that all schema and XML instances included in the
specification, whether by inclusion or reference, including fragments of such,
are well formed, and that all expressions are valid; · (d) A clear
English-language summary of the specification; · (e) A
statement regarding the relationship of this specification to similar work of
other OASIS TCs or other standards developing organizations; · (f) The
Statements of Use presented above; · (g) The
beginning and ending dates of the public review(s), a pointer to the
announcement of the public review(s), and a pointer to an account of each of
the comments/issues raised during the public review period(s), along with its
resolution; · (h) An
account of and results of the voting to approve the specification as a
Committee Specification, including the date of the ballot and a pointer to the
ballot; · (i) An account
of or pointer to votes and comments received in any earlier attempts to
standardize substantially the same specification, together with the originating
TC’s response to each comment; · (j) A
pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the originating TC;
· (k) A pointer to any minority reports delivered by one or more
Members who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee Specification,
which report may include statements regarding why the member voted against the
specification or that the member believes that Substantive Changes were made
which have not gone through public review; or certification by the Chair that
no minority reports exist. · The
above submission must be made by the 15th of any month to the TC Administrator,
who shall have until the end of the month to complete administrative processing
and checking for completeness and correctness of the submission. If the
submission is incomplete it shall be rejected but may be resubmitted at a later
time. · The
TC Administrator shall submit the proposal to the OASIS Membership by the first
day of the following month. The first 15 days of that month shall be used by
the membership to familiarize themselves with the submission. Voting shall
start on the 16th of the month. The voting representatives of those OASIS
Organizational Members who were members at the beginning of the familiarization
period are eligible to vote, and must cast their ballots by the end of the
month. The new
rules introduce the following changes (as well as others): · There
is no longer a fixed timeline requiring submissions to be made by the 15th of
the month; submissions may be made at any time. ·
No
familiarization period is required prior to a vote by OASIS membership.
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