Guidelines for statements of use / possible templates for your use

[Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com>]

***Be careful to trim your message so that it does not contain extraneous material.***


E-mail subject
Statement of use: <Company name>


Template #1: For corporate OASIS member who implements shells, specializations, and documents

As the primary voting representative of <Company name> to OASIS, I endorse the following statement of use:

<Company name> has successfully used the DITA 1.3 Committee Specification 01, approved 21 August 2015, in accordance with section 4.1, "Conformance of DITA implementations," and section 4.2, "Conformance of DITA documents" of the all-inclusive edition. The specialization and constraint modules that are used by the <Company name> implementation include all DITA 1.3 features; they interoperate with multiple independent implementations.

DITA documents that are created by <Company name> make particular use of the following structures that were added to DITA 1.3:

• X
• Y
• Z

Template #2: For non-OASIS member (or individual member) who implements shells, specializations, and documents

<Company name> has successfully used the DITA 1.3 Committee Specification 01, approved 21 August 2015, in accordance with section 4.1, "Conformance of DITA implementations," and section 4.2, "Conformance of DITA documents" of the all-inclusive edition. The specialization and constraint modules that are used by the <Company name> implementation include all DITA 1.3 features; they interoperate with multiple independent implementations.

DITA documents that are created by <Company name> make particular use of the following structures that were added to DITA 1.3:

• X
• Y
• Z

Template #3: For an OASIS member who implements a processor

As the primary voting representative of <Company name> to OASIS, I endorse the following statement of use:

<Company name> has successfully used the DITA 1.3 Committee Specification 01 Part 3 (All Inclusive Edition), approved 21 August 2015, in accordance with section 4.1, "Conformance of DITA implementations," section 4.2, "Conformance of DITA documents", and section 4.3, "Conformance of DITA processors". <Company name> is a <DITA-aware processor | Specialization-aware processor |Fully aware [DITA] processor> under the definition in section 4.3; <Company name> interoperates with multiple independent implementations.

Among others, <Company name> implements the following structures and features added to DITA 1.3:

• X
• Y
• Z

Template #4: For non-OASIS member (or individual member) who implements a processor

<Company name> has successfully used the DITA 1.3 Committee Specification 01 Part 3 (All Inclusive Edition), approved 21 August 2015, in accordance with section 4.1, "Conformance of DITA implementations," section 4.2, "Conformance of DITA documents", and section 4.3, "Conformance of DITA processors". <Company name> is a <DITA-aware processor | Specialization-aware processor |Fully aware [DITA] processor> under the definition in section 4.3; <Company name> interoperates with multiple independent implementations.

Among others, <Company name> implements the following structures and features added to DITA 1.3:

• X
• Y
• Z

***Be careful to trim your message so that it does not contain extraneous material.***

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Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)