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Subject: DocBook v4.5 Submitted for OASIS Standard
OASIS Members: The OASIS DocBook Technical Committee has submitted the following specification set, which is an approved Committee Specification, to be considered as an OASIS Standard: DocBook v4.5CR3 The text of the TC submission is appended. You now have until 15 September to familiarize yourself with the submission and provide input to your organization's voting representative. On 16 September, a Call For Vote will be issued to all Voting Representatives of OASIS member organizations. They will have until the last day of September, inclusive, to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Specification should be approved as an OASIS Standard or not. Members who wish to discuss this ballot may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. In accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee Process, this Committee Specification has already completed the necessary 60-day public review period as noted in the submission below. The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Specifications as OASIS Standards is found at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#3.4 Any statements related to the IPR of this specification are posted at: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/ipr.php Your participation in the review and balloting process is greatly appreciated. Mary Mary P McRae Manager of TC Administration, OASIS email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org phone: 603.232.9090 ----------------------- On behalf of the DocBook TC, I would like to submit DocBook V4.5 for balloting as an OASIS Standard. Please let me know if there is anything missing from the following request. > 1. Links to the approved Committee Specification in the TC's > document repository, and any appropriate supplemental > documentation for the specification, both of which must be > written using the OASIS templates. The specification may not > have been changed between its approval as a Committee > Specification and its submission to OASIS for consideration as > an OASIS Standard, except for the changes on the title page and > running footer noting the approval status and date. The Committee Specification is available in HTML[1] and PDF[2] from the DocBook TC document repository. The schemas are available from the OASIS website at http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5CR3/ > 2. The editable version of all files that are part of the Committee > Specification; The XML[3] source is available from the DocBook TC document repository. > 3. Certification by the TC that all schema and XML instances > included in the specification, whether by inclusion or > reference, including fragments of such, are well formed, and > that all expressions are valid; I so certify. > 4. A clear English-language summary of the specification; DocBook is general purpose XML and SGML document type particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications). The DocBook Technical Committee maintains the DocBook schema. DocBook is officially available as a Document Type Definition (DTD) for both XML and SGML. It is unofficially available in other forms as well. The Version 4.5 release is a maintenance release. It introduces no backwards-incompatible changes. All valid DocBook 4.4 documents are also valid DocBook 4.5 documents. > 5. A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to > similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing > organizations; DocBook is a markup vocabulary for describing human-readable prose (books, topics, help information, product descriptions, etc.) by identifying the components of that prose that are of semantic interest in computer hardware and software documentation. It falls in the same general category of markup as DITA, W3C's XML Spec DTD, and to some extent HTML. Each of these vocabularies is designed for describing prose, but each has a somewhat different approach. Unlike the Open Document Format work, DocBook does not attempt to capture any significant amount of style information. > 6. Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that > they are successfully using the specification; Sun[4], PTC-Arbortext[5], and Flatirons Solutions[6] all assert that they are using DocBook V4.5 successfully. > 7. The beginning and ending dates of the public review(s), a > pointer to the announcement of the public review(s), and a > pointer to an account of each of the comments/issues raised > during the public review period(s), along with its resolution; The public review period was 04 Aug 2005 to 03 Oct 2005 as announced[7] by the TC Administrator. No comments were raised during the comment period. One minor issue raised after the official comment period[8] has been resolved[9]. > 8. An account of and results of the voting to approve the > specification as a Committee Specification, including the date > of the ballot and a pointer to the ballot; The TC voted to move to Committee Specification[10] on 20 June 2006. The ballot was passed with 10 of 11 members voting "yes" and one member neglecting to vote. The TC voted to move the Committee Specification to OASIS Standard[11] on 20 June 2006. The ballot was passed with 9 of 11 members voting "yes" and two members neglecting to vote. > 9. An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any > earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same > specification, together with the originating TC's response to > each comment; The previous attempt succeeded in producing DocBook V4.1 as an OASIS Standard. > 10. A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the > originating TC; Comments and discussion occur on the DocBook list[12]. > 11. A pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or more > Members who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee > Specification, which report may include statements regarding why > the member voted against the specification or that the member > believes that Substantive Changes were made which have not gone > through public review; or certification by the Chair that no > minority reports exist. No minority reports were submitted. Be seeing you, norm [1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19151/docbook-4.5-spec-cs-03.h tml [2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19150/docbook-4.5-spec-cs-03.p df [3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19149/docbook-4.5-spec-cs-03.x ml [4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200604/msg00015.html [5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200604/msg00020.html [6] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200604/msg00025.html [7] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200508/msg00001.html [8] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200602/msg00024.html [9] http://docbook.org/specs/docbook-4.5-spec-cs-02.html#s.cs [10] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=1049 [11] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=1050 [12] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/
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