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Subject: Re: 3 implementations
Tony.Coates@reuters.com wrote: >On 29/08/2001 17:31:29 Lauren Wood wrote: > >>The reason is to make sure this thing is of real value to OASIS member >>organizations before making them decide whether it is an OASIS standard. >>Getting that seal of approval isn't meant to be a rubber stamp; member >>companies rightly want to know why it should be approved by OASIS. And >>if you can't get 3 out of more than 200 member companies to bother to >>implement it, how useful is it? >> > >This sounds a bit like the "not invented here" syndrome becomes "not implemented here" for OASIS. If there are already 3 useful implementations, why would we expect 200 member companies to implement the same thing? Why would we expect even 3 member companies to implement the same thing? I don't see it, I'm afraid. > >What if at least 3 (or N < 10) OASIS members acknowledged that they were using implementations of an TC spec, even if they didn't write it themselves? Wouldn't that provide the kind of safety/sanity check that OASIS is apparently looking for? > "certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they are successfully using the specification;" http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml doesn't actually mention implementing it. The reason for this wording: how do you "implement" a DTD like DocBook? So, are there three OASIS member organizations currently "successfully using" catalogs? With any software? Lauren -- ----------- Lauren Wood, Director of Product Technology, SoftQuad Software Chair, XML 2001 - Information at www.xmlconference.org
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