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Subject: RE: [huml] Mediation SC: draft charter
I thought the updates are very nice Rex, and addresses the Mediation effort from a variety of different perspective, conceptual and detailed. Very cool to see. You framed the effort around a set of HMML specifications, which gives focus to the effort. The main input I have is that we separate the technical examples and details from the general mission statement description and conceptual framework of the SC. I had a couple of other minor comments (see the NOTES section at the end of my email), but looks very good overall. Although it is still a "Technical SubCommittee" I am looking at it from the eyes of the non-profit community I am more part of. Of course, this is slightly different from the government, educational, or corporate community's eyes. We can go back and forth a bit till our next meeting. MISSION STATEMENT ----- The Mediation Subcommittee of the HumanMarkup Technical Committee is tasked to produce a Human Mediation Markup Language, HMML. To do this, the subcommittee will gather resources, identify and incorporate specific existing vocabularies that represent established means for mediation. This will include contributions to the overall Human Markup Language. Subsequently, this subcommittee will support the ongoing development of significant additions or deletions to the Primary and Secondary Base Human Markup Language modules, and incorporations of or from other standards, to ensure that these specifications can be used interoperably to facilitate the effort of resolving conflicts in various manners. Beyond incorporating vocabularies in their proper, societal self-determined contexts, it is considered a requirement to create a standard language for human preferences and interests, cultural and ethnic self-identification, general self-description for temperament and self-description for thresholds for subjective evaluations. Assisting successful collaboration efforts with other standards organizations, working groups, technical committees, businesses and governmental agencies by using other standards in combination with HMML is an important component of our mission. This may include encouraging sample implementation projects and efforts aimed at improving conditions throughout the human world where mediation efforts can contribute to such improvements or where improvements are necessary to bring about the conditions necessary to allow mediation to serve the purpose of mitigating conflict and/or encouraging cooperation or collaboration. PARTS TO BE PLACED WITHIN EXAMPLES / SCOPE SECTION ----------- "formal legal discourse and less formal, but well recognized social contexts that can be legally ratified or notarized" "allow parties to air their positions with an improved likelihood of being accurately understood" "establish relationships between organizations with a vested interest in mitigating conflict. " "accepting unfamiliar religious practices in public as a more conflict-arousing instance." "determining 'tolerance for delay in transaction before cancellation of transaction' that allows for a greater degree of accommodation in normal human social processes such as purchasing decisions for groceries versus purchasing decisions for automobiles" (I had a tough time with this one...maybe an example more reflective of mediation, or another explanation...I liked the concept much, although it may be too specific early on?) NOTES: ------ -Not everyone reading this will know what the Secondary Base HumanML refers to, so I thought it best we introduce it later in the description. -I eliminated "satisfactory to most, if not all participants." (results are not necessary satisfactory to "most" parties either) -I eliminated "legal" from the mission statement (I don't think we should necessarily tie ourselves in with legal vocabulary, although there are valuable uses within that field as you mention). -I extracted some details into a different section (above). ----- Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
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