RE: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do tohelp?

[Martin Chapman <MARTIN.CHAPMAN@oracle.com>]

How about having a service whereby TCs can request the allocation of a namespace, rather than making one up and falling foul of the hard to interpret guidelines. This could also be accompanied with a partially filled out rddl document that points to the right places.

Martin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary McRae [mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: 21 April 2010 20:27
> To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
>   If you've submitted a specification for public review or CS ballot recently, you've probably met
> Kim. I'm thrilled to have her on board and hopefully we're now in good shape to get your documents
> turned around quickly once again.
> 
>   That said, I have at least a dozen ideas of services we can once again offer, or new services, to
> make your lives a bit easier, but I thought I would ask you for your ideas rather than deciding for
> you. There are some caveats of course:
> 
> a. Neither Kim nor I have the power or the skillset to change anything about the way Kavi works.
> b. We're not talking about changes to the TC Process.
> 
> So, for instance:
> 
> - Would you find a template for recording meeting minutes helpful? If yes, in what flavors?
> 
> - Would you like us to take over creation of spec covers? (as in you'll use a temporary cover which
> would become part of the template, you would provide us with whatever information necessary, and we
> would create the cover pages with all the appropriate links and make sure they work before uploading
> to docs.oasis-open.org?)
> 
> - Would you like us to review your specifications prior to TC ballots so you don't need to go back and
> fix stuff afterwards?
> 
> - Would you like us to call in to TC meetings periodically just to hear our voices and answer any
> questions you might have?
> 
> - Would you like more training materials? If yes, is there a particular topic you'd like to see
> covered?
> 
> Remember these are just some of *my* ideas; I want to hear *your* ideas. I need to know what your TOP
> request is; you can have more than one, but please list in order of priority. While you're free to
> discuss on this list, please send your actual list to me so I can track them.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mary
> 
> Mary P McRae
> Director, Standards Development
> Technical Committee Administrator
> OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
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> Standards are like parachutes: they work best when they're open.
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