Meeting
Minutes
: 2001-12-14 Orlando
Review
and Publication: Bernard Vatant
Release: December 18, 2001.
Attending voting
members:
Jim Mason, Eamonn Neylon, Steve Pepper, Hans Holger Rath, Bernard
Vatant
Have called in
during the meeting:
Murray Altheim,
Mary Nishikawa, Suellen Stringer-Hye, Scott Tsao
Excused: Peter
Flynn
Invited guests:
Michel Biezunski,
Patrick Durusau, Lars Marius Garshol, Steve Newcomb
The meeting has taken place from 12.00 to 6.00 pm, with a call-in session
from 2.00 to 3.00
1. Attendance and
Membership
- Out of 11 voting
members, 5 are present, 3 join for the one-hour call-in session during
the meeting. Given that and the presence of invited guests and new prospective
members, it is proposed and agreed that no formal vote will occur during
this meeting, and that any decision will be proposed after the meeting
to e-mail vote.
- Two voting members
have not attended the last conference call and are neither present nor
excused. Notification will be sent to them that their membership could
be terminated if they don't show up before the next meeting.
- Four people request
to attend the meeting as invited guests, and three of them request to
become prospective members (Michel Biezunski, Lars Marius Garshol, Steve
Newcomb). They are accepted, providing they become OASIS members, which
they engage themselves to do ASAP.
2. General overview
- Vocabulary problems
It is asked, by both newcomers and members who did not attend the previous
conference calls, a general overview of the TC work and scope. It appears
that clarification in vocabulary is necessary for TC requirements to be
set up properly.
A general brainstorming on existing vocabulary and its ambiguities results
in the adoption of a provisional vocabulary set, extending and refining
the concepts used by ISO 13250.
3. Conference call
The members that call in are asked to react to the results of the previous
discussion and to express their requirements.
Some main preoccupations expressed are:
- The way for published
subjects to declare themselves and be identified as such
- The way to establish
the identity of the publisher
- The structure of
the subject definition documents themselves
- The way to allow
modularity and reusability of published subjects sets
4. TC Requirements
The draft proposal for requirements are considered not explicit enough.
It is asked that they should be rewritten in terms of "shall, should,
may, won't". A draft of this rewriting is made for the first deliverable
(definition of published subjects).
This draft will be submitted to the TC for review,
and to TC voting in January.
It is decided that requirements for the two other deliverables need more
reflection and input from the industry users, and their redaction is postponed.
5. First Deliverable draft
Bernard Vatant accepts to be the TC editor. He should deliver ASAP (January)
a first draft based on the above set of requirements. This draft should
be available for TC review at least a week before next conference call.
6. Agenda for 2002
F2F Schedule
-- Knowledge Technologies 2002, Seattle, March 14
-- XML Europe 2002, Barcelone, May 24
-- Montreal Extreme Markup, August 9 or 10
Conference Calls
The three-weeks period seems too short to several members, and it's suggested
it should be extended to a monthly schedule. Tuesday 16.00 - 18.00 seems
a good day/time in the week. It should be fine to have two co-calls before
Seattle.
Provisional dates: January 29, February 26 - To be confirmed.
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