RE: Milestone: OASIS DITA TC approves Committee Draft of DITA 1.1 materials

["Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

Hi everyone,

  Just a couple of notes - first, please note the new cover page format at:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/OASISSpecificationTemplateV3.0Legacy.html
and documented at: 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/OASISSpecificationTemplateGuidelines.html

Since the TC is currently in IPR Transition mode, and the transition will not be complete until 20 March, the TC should
continue to use the Legacy IPR notice. There is a new paragraph added to the bottom of the Notices section relating to
Trademarks. The paragraph contains a link to the actual Trademark Policy - any appropriate trademarks should be noted.

The second note is related to formats: the formal Public Review submission must contain links to 3 formats: DITA source,
XHTML, and PDF. 

Let me know if you have any questions or need further assistance.

Regards,

Mary


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Day [mailto:dond@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:46 AM
> To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> Cc: DITA TC list 
> Subject: Milestone: OASIS DITA TC approves Committee Draft of 
> DITA 1.1 materials
> 
> 
> Mary, I am pleased to inform you of the decision yesterday by 
> the OASIS DITA TC to approve the following materials as the 
> DITA 1.1 Committee Draft, pursuant to initiating a formal 
> public review of this new specification.
> 
> Minutes recording the unanimous approval of the Committee 
> Draft of DITA
> 1.1:
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200702/msg00026.html
> 
> The links below are for the approval drafts of record, with 
> PDFs produced using IBM's formatter. The next step for us is 
> to produce PDF versions that include the required OASIS cover 
> page for the public review version.  This time, we will be 
> able to use the DITA Open Toolkit with the XEP formatter for 
> production, using a cover page override that has been 
> contributed by Gershon Joseph. We will coordinate that 
> production with Gershon as quickly as possible so that we can 
> make these available for the public review.
> 
> By the way, anyone will be able to use the provided source to 
> produce preferred output versions (using the DITA Open 
> Toolkit or other conformant
> tools) for early implementation or testing. The override for 
> the OASIS cover page will be specific to the DITA Open 
> Toolkit and the XEP-based output plugin.
> 
> We will have final links for the public review after we 
> produce the OASIS versions and upload all the materials under 
> the CD category of our documents area.
> 
> DITA 1.1 Language Specification CD:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22437/ditare
> f-type.pdf
> (7.4M)
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22438/dita1.
> 1-langref.zip
> (source files)
> 
> DITA 1.1 Architectural Specification CD:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22447/ditasp
> ec.pdf (1M) source files coming soon
> 
> DITA 1.1 DTDs  CD (normative, final)
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/21795/dita1.1.zip
> 
> DITA 1.1 Schemas CD (final contingent on documenting and 
> working around a newly-discovered parser bug, no design 
> changes remaining--due to be finished in a few days ) 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22329/dita1.
> 1_refact_b.zip
> 
> The DTDs in particular have been well tested for this 
> version, having been part of the IBM production environment 
> now for several months, and available for public use as the 
> processing DTDS for the DITA Open Toolkit since last August.
> 
> I wish to thank all the DITA TC members, contributing 
> reviewers from OASIS companies, and non-OASIS commenters for 
> their careful focus on the DITA 1.1 designs and 
> specifications, which have significantly more and better 
> reviewed information than ever before. Congratulations on 
> achieving this milestone!
> 
> Special note: Editors for this version were Michael  
> Priestley for the Architectural Specification and Robert 
> Anderson for the Language Specification.  Robert maintained 
> the normative 1.1 DTDs as the design progressed, and Eric 
> Sirois maintained the 1.1 Schemas that reflect the same 
> design patterns for specialization.
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Don Day
> Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
> IBM Lead DITA Architect
> Email: dond@us.ibm.com
> 11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
> Phone: +1 512-838-8550
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> 
> "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
>  Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
>    --T.S. Eliot
>