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Subject: Re: [office-comment] Change Tracking issue
Leonard, Leonard Mada wrote: > Hello, > > lists wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have been thinking about a security issue with every office document >> that it might be a good idea to include into the ODF specification. >> >> The history of edits, or "Change Tracking". I know that this is a >> heavily used feature and cannot be removed from the specification. The >> problem lies in keeping that history in the document. I do not know of a >> single person who will retype a letter completely from scratch if they >> have one that can be modified slightly to meet the current need. > > Good point. Indeed, I almost always reuse existing letters (and > documents, not just letters), and I am working in a governmental > setting. Most people I work with do the same. Actually, even > spreadsheets get reused: the old version is opened and it will be > saved with a new name. > > However, I am not yet fully convinced that a separate file is > necessary. But there should be a mechanism to ensure that confidential > information is not passed inadvertently to persons not intended to > view such confidential information. > > A possible solution is an option that requires that all tracking > changes are deleted IF a document is saved with a different name. This > should be set by default. Interesting suggestion but what if I want the tracking changes even if the document is saved with a different name? One of the changes that will be introduced for metadata in ODF 1.2 is the ability to have asynchronous metadata for an ODF document. That is you and I can maintain separate metadata for the same document, say in a contract negotiation situation. While we enable that capability by a specified binding mechanism (metadata manifest file) we do not specify how any particular application would in fact implement that capability. ODF is a document markup format and not an application specification, although we do walk a fine line between those two at times. Hope you are having a great holiday season! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
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