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Subject: Re: [emergency] Re CAP-IPAWS Profile Specification Issues
On 18 Feb 2009, at 12:42, James Bryce Clark wrote: > But it also was suggested that TC members who are DHS staff or DHS > contractors are acting improperly, if they favor including the DHS > material. That's silly. Standards committee members are all > experts, with biases, which they bring into a TC ... to hammer out > compromises .. which is what we do in standards work. As long as > the deliberations are carried out properly and transparently under > our rules, no-one should be attacked for having an opinion. > > It also was suggested that OASIS or its staff has some intent to > control the TC. That's silly, too. The TC is free to make its own > choices. Art expressed concern about the contract OASIS made with > DHS to provide some assistance and information to DHS about the > spec. OASIS could not have agreed to a contract that asked us to > influence or assure the technical decisions made by the TC. And we > didn't. Because we don't have that power. > > The contract was not posted to the TC because, for whatever reason, > the contractor set some rules around how it's disclosed. Which Art > and everyone is welcome to pursue. James, in the first para you say "as long as the deliberations are carried out transparently"....then you say (3rd para) that a Contract between OASIS and DHS related to "providing assistance" to a DHS about an EMTC spec cannot be made available to the TC for "whatever reason". Could you explain the apparent contradiction? Cheers... Renato Iannella NICTA
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