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      OASIS DITA Technical Committee Minutes
                Tuesday, 4 August 2009
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Minutes recorded by Kristen James Eberlein.


1. ROLL CALL
Present: 

Quorum is present.


2. APPROVE MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING
* 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/33564/DitaTcMeeting-2009-07-28.txt
(Gershon) 
Motion made to approve minutes; seconded by Bruce Nevin; motion carried by
acclamation.


3. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS
* OASIS DITA Technical Communication SC
Gershon is waiting for Mary McRae to set up the Wiki infrastructure.
* OASIS DITA Mashup SC
No progress.
* OASIS DITA for the Web 2.0 SC
John Hunt reported that he is working with Mark Lewis, who has e-mailed
interested people. They are planning a pre-meeting.


4. ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION: Progress of first review
Gershon reported that work is slow, given people's vacation and sick time.
Working on updates and generating a single document that combines the arch
spec and lang spec. Need to have an author's meeting.


7. ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION: Conformance statement
Gershon has added draft comments and tagging.


8. ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION: Inheritance vs Cascade: Propagation?
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00021.html (Kimber)
Deferred until Elliot Kimber is present.


9. NEW ITEM: Use of the word "customization"
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http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200907/msg00012.html
(Jeff Ogden)
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http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200907/msg00010.html
(Eliot Kimber)
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http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200907/msg00142.html
(Michael Priestley)
Michael summarized the e-mail thread. Need to make sure that the
specification reflects this. Editorial action for Elliot.


10. NEW ITEM: Map element IDs and references to them
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00024.html (Kimber)
Deferred until Elliot Kimber is present.


11. New ITEM: Lockmeta issues (Kimber)
* lockmeta: What is implication of "yes" for map processing/rendition?
	o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00022.html 
* Default For Lockmeta?
	o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00023.html
Deferred until Elliot Kimber is present.


12. NEW ITEM: Organization of Tagname Parameter Entities in DTD Modules
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00165.html
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00168.html
Closed, given agreement to make this a 1.3 item. 

Action (4 August 2009):
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Gershon Joseph to add this to the DITA 1.3 list.


13. New ITEMS: Proposals for Refinements to Learning and Training Modules
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00178.html
* Learning and Training Proposal: Make learningBasebody Optional
	o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00179.html 
* Learning and Training Proposal: Allow Topicrefs to Nest Themselves
	o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00180.html 
* Learning and Training Proposal: New Subelement for lcMatchingPair toHold
Feedback
	o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00181.html 
* Learning and Training Proposal: New Base Type for Interactions
	o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00182.html

John Hunt gave an overview. Elliot Kimber's recent involvement in the SC --
based on his field experience -- is driving changes to fix issues that have
arisen in real world implementations. Need to be careful given that people
are currently implementing.
1) Body element currently is required in each topic type. Removing this
could be considered a bug fix, to be consistent with the base DITA topic
type.
2) Learning and Training map domain: Current design restricts <topicref>
elements from nesting, largely to align with SCORM. But SCORM is developing
-- and the chunking attribute can be used to comply with any need to
restrict nesting.
3) Current design does not provide a mechanism for feedback about
lcMatchingPair
4) Suggests a new base type -- there currently are workarounds for this
issue


Need discussion of backwards compatibility and risks for DITA 1.2/impact to
1.2. What is the hit to the DTDs and documentation? Continue discussion
next week.

Action (4 August 2009):
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John Hunt to send an e-mail to the list about the impact to the DITA 1.2
(DTDs and schemas, documentation) that these proposals would cause.



Meeting adjourned.

 -- Kristen Eberlein

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