Meeting Minutes - March 15, 2008

Attendees: David Ferrucci, Eric Nyberg, Pascal Coupet, Carl Mattocks

  * Draft spec in OASIS template format was distributed to the group
    and uploaded to the site

  * To be approved, the spec will be reviewed for a vote by the
    general OASIS membership, and 15% (about 45 out of about 300
    members) must vote positively for it to be approved. We will need
    to get all of our TC members engaged and involved in the vote, and
    we will need to work to enlighten the general OASIS community and
    marshall their support as well.

  * The spec will be open to a 60-day public review, then submitted
    for a 15-day review period and subsequent vote. Because of the
    timing and a desire to avoid the summer vacation period, we should
    try to initiate this process by the end of March, or wait until
    the end of August.

  * Section 3.4.7, lines 851-858 - should the spec require that PE
    metadata interfaces (e.g. getMetadata()) be implemented to return
    objects in the standard XML representation? Some implementors may
    choose not to do this, if it's not strictly necessary, but we may
    wish to include it as a compliance point nevertheless. The
    alternative, stating that the objects returned from the API calls
    be "mappable to the standard representation", is difficult to
    evaluate in individual cases. To be discussed with the larger group.

  * To get the spec through the review process before June we'll need to
    submit it by March 28th; to do that, we need to read the current
    draft in the next week and make a decision on whether we're ready
    to submit, modulo another week's worth of revisions; the goal
    would be to make the decision in a telco next Friday (21st), and
    submit a version by the 28th.