RE: [entity-resolution] minutes from meeting 20051004

[Mary McRae <marypmcrae@gmail.com>]

Hi everyone,

  This issue has been raised many times - for those of us with a publishing background we all know that many mistakes don't pop out
at you until you see the final printed piece. As TC Administrator, my job is to uphold the TC Process. I do urge you, however, if
you feel that the TC Process should be changed in some way, or that there should be a formally-defined process for errata, etc. that
you contact members of the TAB and the Board and make your views known. OASIS is a member-driven organization; we recently changed
the rules around voting rights because members found the previous rule too confusing and the burden on the voting member too great.

Regards,

Mary 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka@kosek.cz] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 4:19 PM
> To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> Cc: 'Grosso, Paul'; entity-resolution@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [entity-resolution] minutes from meeting 20051004
> 
> Mary McRae wrote:
> 
> >   While this can be done during the public review phase, no changes 
> > whatsoever are allowed once the document is submitted for Standard 
> > vote. It's a shame that the comment wasn't raised at that 
> point. The TC could take the schema and vote it to CD status 
> and then post as schema v1.1.1 but it can't be incorporated 
> into the standard unless another standard vote is conducted.
> 
> But what's the point here? It is simply typo that would be 
> corrected in errata otherwise. Isn't it then better to fix 
> this typo before final document is published?
> 
> What is better?
> 
> 1) To publish document with known typo.
> 2) To publish document without typo but breaking process 
> rules that are complety non-sense in this particular case.
> 3) To publish document without typo because by accidental 
> typo during editing front page, typo in non-normative part 
> was accidentaly corrected. Such things can happen 
> (probability level 1/2^128) and no one can prove that 
> processing rules were cheated intentionally.
> 
> OK, I know that by joining OASIS I agreeded to process rules 
> and resistence is futile. But I also want to say that if 
> option 2) is really prohibited by OASIS rules I will not 
> blame editor for editing final copy of standard on the board 
> of Heart of Gold.
> 
> 					Jirka
> 
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