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      OASIS DITA Technical Committee Minutes
                Tuesday, 21 April 2009
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Minutes recorded by Kristen James Eberlein.


1. ROLL CALL
Quorum is present.


2. APPROVE MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS BUSINESS MEETINGS
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200904/msg00076.html (14 April 2009) 
Motion made to approve minutes; seconded by Gershon Joseph; motion carried by acclamation.


3. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS
OASIS DITA Semiconductor Information Design scheduled for May 5, then Enterprise Business Documents on May 12.
Action (21 April 2009): Don to schedule reports from these subcommittees.


4. ITEM: Cross-references to Topicheads and Implicit Title-only Topics 
Action (21 April 2009): Michael Priestley to respond to Elliot’s e-mail; Elliot Kimber to send a proposal to the e-mail list.


5. ITEM: Mapref attribute resolution 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00007.html (Anderson) 
* Latest summary of issues: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200904/msg00074.html (Ogden) 
Action: Robert Anderson to send the final summary to the list.
Robert gave a brief overview; there are three open questions:
1) Do multi-valued attributes override or merge when they cascade from map to map?
2) While @base and attributes specialized upon @base do not cascade within maps or topics, it is unclear if @base or a specialization based upon @base cascades from a map to a topic or not.
	General consensus:  Leave this undefined and let the application choose what to do. The spec should specify that these attributes do not cascade, although implementation can choose how to handle it
3) How does @scope behave when cascading from map to map?
	General consensus: It will not cascade, since the scope attribute is specifying whether the target is available – thus not something that cascades onto the target.
Action (21 April 2009) : Robert to write up summary based on this discussion; vote next week.


6. ITEM: Editorial Style (can close contingent on following action) 
Action: Gershon Joseph will follow through on this by setting up the sign-up page. 


7. ITEM: Proposal for new Tech Comm. Subcommittee (Visit on April 21st meeting) 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200904/msg00002.html 
JoAnn will announce this on Monday at CMS/DITA NA, can schedule a lunch for both OASIS and non-OASIS members.
Action: JoAnn and Gershon to move this forward at the CMS/DITA NA conference


8. ITEM: review Master Topic List--Gershon 
* Subversion clients: 
	o Tortoise: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200904/msg00018.html 
	o Eclipse and oXygen: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200904/msg00021.html 
* Action: Gershon to add content to Wiki regarding basic tasks 
• Latest spreadsheet: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200904/msg00017.html (no updates this week) 
Work in progress. JoAnn has largely finished the introductory topics and will upload them this week.


9. New ITEM: Specialization spec packaging (Kravogel via Gershon) 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200904/msg00075.html
Action: Gershon and Chris Kravogel to rephrase the question and post it to the list.
Meeting cancelled for 28 April 2009, due to members’ attendance at CMS/DITA NA.


Meeting adjourned.