[FWD: [members] New OASIS Discussion List: docstandards-interop-discuss]

Subject: [FWD: [members] New OASIS Discussion List: docstandards-interop-discuss]

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Subject: [members] New OASIS Discussion List:
docstandards-interop-discuss
From: "Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
Date: Mon, April 09, 2007 8:24 am
To: <members@lists.oasis-open.org>, <tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org>
Cc: <docstandards-interop-tech@lists.oasis-open.org>,
<docstandards-interop-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org>

     OASIS members have requested that we open a new discussion
list,

regarding a possible new OASIS Document Standards

Interoperability TC. The proposal conforms to our rules and is set

forth below. Standards always are improved by broad

participation. OASIS encourages open discussions about possible new

TCs, by offering a dedicated e-mail list for 90

days, upon member request. The address of this list will be:



docstandards-interop-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org



Anyone, including OASIS members and non-members, may subscribe to this

list in order to discuss the merits and

possibility of the proposed project.  The list is now open, and can be

joined by sending a message to:



docstandards-interop-discuss-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org. [1]



The discussion list is governed by Section 2.1 of the OASIS TC Process

[2], and may last up to 90 days.  Typically,

participants in the list will determine whether there is sufficient

interest to form an OASIS TC, and then collaborate

on a draft TC charter for submission. Only subscribers to the list

will have the ability to post to it. If you do not

wish to subscribe, but would like to monitor the discussion, archives

of the list will be visible at [3].



Please feel free to forward this announcement to any other appropriate

lists. OASIS is an open standards organization,

and welcomes your feedback. We look forward to assisting parties

interested in joining the community of implementers,

technologists, academics and end-users contributing to open

standardization for e-business and information exchange.





Mary P McRae

Manager of TC Administration, OASIS

web: www.oasis-open.org 

 



[1] Additional assistance is available, if needed, from the contacts

listed at

http://www.oasis-open.org/who/contactus.php

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#2.1

[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/



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DISCUSSION LIST PROPOSAL



list name: 

docstandards-interop-discuss



preliminary statement of scope: 

One of the benefits that XML touted from early in its inception was

that of platform independence. This independence

greatly helped in its widespread adoption, yet brought with it the

unintended consequence of a proliferation of

standardized XML grammars. Document standards such as DITA

(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita), DocBook

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook), and ODF

(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office) all address a

similar need to mark up documentation in a platform-independent format. 



Increasingly, organizations need to collaborate and share content with

other organizations. As a result, XML

interoperability between these standards is critical. These standards,

however, have not been designed with

cross-standard interoperability in mind. The Doc Standards

Interoperability TC is intended to address the development

and documentation of scenarios for cross-standard content sharing; a

specification for 

an interoperability framework, including mappings from participating

standard formats to the framework; and requirements

on participating standards to improve interoperability. 



names, affiliations, and email addresses: 

Michael Priestley, IBM - mpriestl@ca.ibm.com 

Jim Earley, Flatirons - jim.earley@flatironssolutions.com 

Scott Hudson, Flatirons - scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com 

Don Harbison, IBM - donald_harbison@us.ibm.com 



discussion list leader: 

Michael Priestley, IBM 







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