Re: [office-collab] Fwd: Fw: Re: [office] Questions/comments concerning the Select Committee report on Change Tracking

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <andreas.guelzow@concordia.ab.ca>]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> 
> Robin LaFontaine wrote:
> > 5. "GCT ... represents a great change to the ODF format. It would require a
> > substantial overhead, both for XML and non-XML implementations of ODF.
> > Particularly when compared to the operations proposal which we discuss below.
> > The select committee cannot recommend GCT as the proposal to “fix” change
> > tracking in ODF."
> > 
> > This statement that GCT has a more substantial overhead than MCT seems to be a
> > bold declaration, given that MCT is some considerable way away from being fully
> > defined. Please would you add an explanation of this for the record as you are
> > asking the TC to base the future direction of ODF on this.
> > 
> Hi Robin,
> 
> representing one of the ODF consumers without an internal XML model,
> I can tell you that there were grave concerns, if not for the
> implementability, but at the very least for the substantial
> retooling costs this would have incurred. To the point that people
> were advocating to ignore this part of ODF, should it become a
> standard.

Since I represent another ODF consumer/producer, I guess it may be time
for me to reiterate that I also consider GCT unimplementable by our
development team.

Andreas 

-- 
Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA
Concordia University College of Alberta

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