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Subject: RE: [election-services] EML next steps with JTC1 (interim update)
Jamie Thanks very much for this update. I don't see anything in this to change the view of the TC that we should press ahead with v6 and then submit that version to ISO later this year. Indeed we are well into our v6 work now and will press ahead with all due speed on that - depending how fast David W can go!! I'll come back to you for further advice on a new ISO submission when we are further through the OASIS approvals process. Regards John Skype: gov3john m. +44 (0)7976 157745 -----Original Message----- From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:jamie.clark@oasis-open.org] Sent: 05 April 2009 00:14 To: John Borras Cc: 'Laurent Liscia'; 'Carol Cosgrove-Sacks'; James Bryce Clark; EML TC Subject: [election-services] EML next steps with JTC1 (interim update) This is an interim report on our OASIS submission arrangements with ISO/IEC JTC1, which as you know the Elections TC hopes to use later this year. We talked earlier about JTC1's wide-ranging debates over how external submissions like the "PAS" submissions from OASIS are handled. We discussed this at your meeting, when you considered the state of EML v5, and the TC decided to hold any request for JTC1 submission until your next major version, EML v6, expected later this calendar year. Since then, the JTC1 leadership has asked us to visit with the leaders of one relevant subcommittee, SC34, which we have done in a series of meetings, and worked out some possible ground rules for future handling of versions, errata, and the like,. These recommendations are being provided both to JTC1 (who will act to formally accept them in June or thereabouts). Shortly I expect to hear back from the just-completed SC34 meetings in Prague, where they were planning to endorse those principles in writing. At the same time we are working on the same issues with the OASIS Board of Directors, who created a committee (on which I sit) to review and revise our own rules for these submissions. Their work should be done within a month, and I will report it to you. It is my hope that they will adopt the same basic principles that JTC1 plans to recommend. So far the two groups seem to be converging nicely on common solutions. The Board is considering what other rules and requirements it wishes to apply, because the Liaison Policy (covering external submissions) has not been reviewed for several years; as I mentioned to you when we spoke, we should know shortly whether any other rules or plans will come from that review. I think we're still on the course predicted when we spoke earlier this year: by the time your committee has v6 ready to go, we should have a commonly-understood and updated set of submission and cooperation rules to use as well. Thanks for all of the work you are putting into EML, and we'll look forward to working with you to advance it once the current version is ready. Kind regards Jamie ~ James Bryce Clark ~ Director of Standards Development, OASIS ~ http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php#clark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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