RE: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

That's fine.  It is the agreements to coordinate that 
terrify me.  We don't have much to hook to yet and 
HumanML is already receiving too much attention from 
an uninformed punditry.  Informed punditry may be worse. :-)

I'm not dissing SW efforts.  I just don't want to have 
to do that footwork until we have a solid hold on the 
domains we are capturing.   We did a lot of work in 
phase 0 on aspects of that to find the commonalities 
among different efforts to analyse and classify human 
communications.  If we can focus on that, then in the 
upcoming meeting, the TC has a reasonable consensus 
to work with.  Otherwise, it comes down to just a few 
people voting their favorite things instead of a 
consensus on the scope of the work.  The big criticism 
and the one that is most valid about this project 
is a lack of focus.   Focus is not a one time decision. 
It is a scope done once, then moved when the area of 
focus is understood.   How do we know when it is understood? 
The best we can say is we have a working and usable 
property set defined and documented.   Then if a new 
focus reveals errors in our earlier understanding, 
we don't start from scratch.  

I'm willing to bet based on the number of you who 
are XML book authors that most of you know how to 
deal with XML Schemas, therefore, can evaluate that 
model quickly and ask succinct questions.


Len Bullard
Intergraph Public Safety
clbullar@ingr.com
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


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From: s.livingstone@btinternet.com [mailto:s.livingstone@btinternet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:56 PM
To: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org


Right now, I'm not specifying that anything other than some formal
communication lines be open - just so the work doesn't get overlooked. It is
a very valid part of SM activities (isn't it?). They offer the opportunity
to have these channels open as well.

I agree that there is a heck of a lot of work in this project before we can
do much with thee W3 SM efforts.