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Subject: Re: standards process
Looks good to me. Thanks, Karl. / "Karl Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org> was heard to say: | Norm: | | Looks good. I'll send out the ballot on Monday. Here's what it'll say. Let | me know if I should change anything. | | ========== | OASIS members: | | The DocBook Technical Committee has submitted to OASIS the latest version of | the DocBook DTD, and asks that the OASIS membership vote to approve it as an | OASIS Specification. The submission meets the requirements of the technical | committee process (see http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml), | as follows: | | 1. The DocBook Technical Committee has submitted DocBook v4.1.2, an XML | version of the DTD, and v4.1, an SGML version of the DTD, and certifies that | these are valid DTDs or their type. The DTDs may be found at | http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/ and | http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.1/ | | 2. The submission is documented. DocBook 3.1 was fully documented by | DocBook: The Definitive Guide at http://docbook.org/tdg/. The changes | introduced in DocBook 4 have not (yet) been integrated into TDG, but they | are available at http://docbook.org/tdg/40updates/ | | 3. The English-language summary of the specification is as follows: | | DocBook is a DTD maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of | OASIS. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about | computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to | these applications). | | Because it is a large and robust DTD, and because its main structures | correspond to the general notion of what constitutes a "book," DocBook | has been adopted by a large and growing community of authors writing | books of all kinds. DocBook is supported "out of the box" by a number | of commercial tools, and there is rapidly expanding support for it in | a number of free software environments. These features have combined | to make DocBook a generally easy to understand, widely useful, and | very popular DTD. Dozens of organizations are using DocBook for | millions of pages of documentation, in various print and online | formats, worldwide. | | 4. Three OASIS members have certified to me that they are sucessfully using | the specification. They are Sun Microsystems (Norm Walsh), Arbortext (Paul | Grosso), and CommerceOne (Terry Allen). | | 5. There were no previous unsucessful ballots for this submission, so no | account of comments is required. | | 6. The archives for the discussions of the DocBook Technical Committee are | available at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/ | | As specified by the Technical Committee Process, balloting takes place as | follows: | | - The OASIS membership has 30 days to respond to this ballot; balloting will | close on 31 October 2000. One vote from each OASIS member organization is | allowed; an organization may change its vote by sending in another vote up | until the close of balloting. | | - Votes should be sent to tc-voting@lists.oasis-open.org. You should state | the name of the OASIS member organization and the vote, e.g. "XYZ | Corporation votes YES on the DocBook specification." Archives of votes are | available at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-voting/ | | - I will announce the results of the ballot within seven days of the end of | the voting period. | | </karl> | ============================================================ | Karl F. Best | OASIS - Director, Technical Operations | 978.667.5115 x206 | karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org | | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com] | > Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 4:09 PM | > To: Karl Best | > Cc: docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org; Paul Grosso; Terry Allen | > Subject: Re: standards process | > | > | > / "Karl Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org> was heard to say: | > | > What constitutes certification? | > | | > | I need statements (email is okay) from representatives of three member | > | organizations. | > | > >From Paul Grosso, Arbortext: | > | > This message is to confirm that Arbortext, an OASIS member, both | > distributes and uses as part of its current Epic series products | > the DocBook 4.0 document type. | > | > >From Norman Walsh, Sun Microsystems: | > | > Sun has successfully used the DocBook V4.0 document type. | > | > >From Terry Allen, CommerceOne: | > | > Yes, Commerce One has used Docbook 4 successfully. | > | > | So all we're lacking is three member organizations to certify | > that they use | > | the proposed standard. As long as I have this in the next | > couple of days I | > | can get it out by the deadline on Oct 1st. I'll write up a | > ballot and get it | > | sent out. | > | > There you go. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. | > | > Be seeing you, | > norm | > | > -- | > Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Endurance is frequently a form of | > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | indecision.--Elizabeth Bibesco | > Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | | > Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | One's never alone with a rubber duck. http://nwalsh.com/ |
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