RE: [chairs] public comment web form

["Lauren Wood" <lauren@textuality.com>]

Not to mention giving the chair another task and potentially delaying 
the comments should the chair be out of reach for a short period.

Lauren

On 4 Sep 2003 Rich Thompson wrote:

> One could always argue that the chair can forward the comment with a reply 
> to the TC mail list rather than a private response. I was more concerned 
> that this takes what was an open communication (posting to an email list) 
> and turns it into a private communication (email to the chair). This seems 
> to go against the open nature of OASIS.
> 
> Rich Thompson
> OASIS WSRP TC Chair
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@onename.com>
> 09/04/2003 01:27 PM
>  
>         To:     <lauren@textuality.com>, <chairs@lists.oasis-open.org>
>         cc:     "Gabe Wachob (E-mail)" <gwachob@visa.com>
>         Subject:        RE: [chairs] public comment web form
> 
> 
> Karl,
> 
> I agree with Lauren. At least a limited form of public discussion seems
> like a valuable portion of what OASIS provides. What was the board's
> thinking on this?
> 
> =Drummond 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lauren Wood [mailto:lauren@textuality.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:02 AM
> To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [chairs] public comment web form
> 
> Karl wrote:
> 
> * The TC's public comment list is replaced with a "means to collect
> public comments", which will be a web form. (This is to prevent the
> comment list from being used as a discussion list.) Comments
> collected by the web form will go to the chairs. I'm having the web
> forms built  now and will announce to the comment lists when this
> change will take place. 
> 
> 
> Karl,
> 
> how do we then ask clarifying questions, or make quick replies (along
> the lines of "see section 2.1. in the spec - isn't that clear
> enough?" 
> 
> I can understand not wanting full discussions, but we often do need
> clarifying discussions to know what the comment provider really
> meant. And I'd rather not have that take place in private email. 
> 
> Lauren
> 
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> Lauren Wood, Textuality
> Chair, ER TC
> 
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