Re: [codelist] CVA scope creep?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2009-04-26 21:51 +0100, Anthony B. Coates (DES) wrote:
>It's a good question.  It's definitely scope creep in one sense, the sense
>that it takes CVA beyond the bounds of code lists, and beyond the scope of
>the CLRTC.  At the same time, it's obvious that it's exactly what users
>would want to do.  Why should they care about what our internal OASIS
>scope boundaries are?

Agreed.

>Still, as an OASIS TC, we have to give some thought to scope.  I seem to
>remember we discussed this issue once before, and I suggested two
>possibilities:
>
>  1) create a separate OASIS TC to carry forward the extension of CVA into
>something bigger, with a scope beyond code lists.  That would parallel the
>way the CLRTC was spun off the UBL TC;

True, but I think that was a much cleaner definition of a topic scope 
suitable for a new TC.  I'm very reluctant to trigger the overhead of 
a new technical committee whose scope would probably only be the one 
extension of this schema and nothing else.

>  2) allow for this functionality in the CVA Schema, but document it
>non-normatively (at least in an official sense) in an appendix to its
>spec, so that the normative part is within scope.

Kewl idea!  But in the conformance section while such non-code-list 
constraints would be entirely optional, if they were present they 
would need to conform to the committee definition and schema components.

I think your suggestion can justify keeping it in the one CVA specification.

>Perhaps someone from OASIS could suggest what is best.  Mary?

Thanks for your thoughts on this, Mary!

. . . . . . . . . Ken

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