RE: [emergency] Final editorial corrections?

[Art Botterell <acb@incident.com>]

Sorry, Bob... I'd been advised by an experienced source (in fact, I 
believe it was you) that final non-substantive editorial corrections 
to a standards document are normally permitted prior to publication. 
(An obvious and unavoidable example is changing the words "Committee 
Draft" to "OASIS Standard.")

My impression is that that section you cite refers to the process 
during voting on a Committee Draft, not to the publication of an 
adopted Standard.  My understanding is that the ballot was completed 
today at 11:45 AM Eastern time with more than the required number of 
affirmative votes and no negative votes, and that therefore CAP 1.0 
is an effective OASIS Standard at this time.  However, there are 
still the mechanics of publication, which I don't see detailed in the 
process document.

Anyway, I just wanted to suggest that might we take this final 
opportunity to correct any minor flaws that didn't change the 
substance of the standard.  If that's not permitted, that's fine, but 
if it were, would you object to our doing that?

Maybe our OASIS staff can guide us on this point.

- Art


At 2:35 PM -0500 3/31/04, Bob Wyman wrote:
>Art Botterell wrote:
>>  see if there are any final editorial corrections
>>  we should make?
>	I'm confused... But, this may be simply because I am new to
>the OASIS process. Nonetheless, it seems to me that the OASIS
>process[1] is very clear when it says: in Section 3(b)"Member
>Approval" that:
>
>    "Errata or Corrigenda to a submission are not permitted;
>     if changes are required the Committee Draft must be
>     withdrawn by the TC, edited, re-approved as a Committee
>     Draft, then resubmitted."
>
>	Given my potentially flawed reading of the published OASIS
>process, it seems that the *only* avenue available for corrections of
>any form would be to withdraw the current document and resubmit it
>after the corrections had been made. Or, are you talking about a V1.x
>draft that would be submitted for member approval sometime after
>V1.0's vote is complete? What am I missing?
>
>		bob wyman
>
>[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php
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