OpenDocument TC Coordination Call Minutes 2006-09-11

[Lars Oppermann <Lars.Oppermann@Sun.COM>]

1. Dial-In, Roll Call

Yue Ma, IBM
Helen Yue, IBM
Robert Weir, IBM
Patrick Durusau, Individual
David Faure, KDE
Mary McRae, OASIS
Michael Brauer, Sun
Lars Oppermann, Sun
David A. Wheeler, The OpenDocument Foundation
Bruce D'Arcus, The The OpenDocument Foundation
Gary Edwards, The The OpenDocument Foundation
Daniel Vogelheim, The OpenDocument Foundation


2. Approval of Meeting Minutes, Action Item Review

The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes from the last
coordination call.

3. Action Items
- none pending

4. A11Y SC Charter

(michael) ASC would like to adopt charter after delivering formal
evaluation. update was sent last friday.
(david) proposal uses the term "ODF Authors" it was not clear to me
which authors are meant here.
(bruce) it seems to be clear that document authors are meant
(david) I agree
(michael) any objection to the revised charter of the AYC
- no objection -
RESOLUTION: the TC accepts the updated version of the Accessibility Sub 
Committee

5. UOF
(michael) mary joined the call to discuss UOF efforts with us. We
should start with a short description of what the SC should do
... as a comment from ISO (china) we received the request whether UOF and
ODF could be harmonized. goal would be to have a single office document
standard in ISO which also addresses the needs of the chinese national 
body that specifies UOF.
The problem is, that the ODF TC currently has no knowledge of what makes
UOF different from ODF, so the mission of the TC is to bring together
the subject matter expert in order to analyze the two specification and
identify gaps that would be in ODF in order to be able to express what
can be expressed in UOF in ODF and also to propose further harmonization
  steps.
(rob) yes, this coming from china as they have reached out to us looking
for ways to make the two formats work better together.
So we would like to take the opportunity to have some of their experts
work on the SC and propose to us what gaps could be filled to harmonize
the formats in terms of markup or conceptional differences.
(david) they can propose changes to out TC and to UOF
(mary) this is where it gets tricky, I don't think they can make a
proposal to UOF directly, but if the people from UOF are part of the SC,
they could certainly bring suggestions back to UOF.
(michael) the idea is for people from from UOF to join OASIS. The SC
might even be run in chinese language. Hence it is stated which
deliverables would need to be delivered in english language.
(rob) an example could be 3 (what further steps should be taken...)
assume numbered lists are different, however they are similar
conceptually. They could than propose back to UOF with harmonizations
suggestions
(mary) we could create a formall liason relationship, but you already
did that by having people on both groups.
...
(mary) I initially thought that what was in the SC charter was out of
scope for the TC. But doesn't look like that as it stands now. They
could also use the comments list but that would be pretty much of a
one-way communication channel. Especially as there is no formal
obligation for the TC to act on comments outside of a public review.

(rob) UOF working group includes government and industry groups. they
have not submitted to any international group yet.

(mary) so I would be fine with it from an OASIS perspective

(rob) does anyone else have an opinion on how we do this
(davidW) I think we should get started ASAP
(rob) I hope that helen and MaYue will be able to help
(patrick) I am very interested in seeing the translated spec
(MaYue) specification translation to english is underway
(?) is there also a chinese translation of ODF being done?
(MaYue) that is not needed
(rob) we should be able to get started in a month time
(MaYue) Beijing university is also working on a ODF/OUF conversion
report which should be available soon, they are already having a converter
(rob) so there will be even implementation experience in the SC
(gary) i think this needs high profile approach. we are setting a
precedent of creating a SC every time we need to harmonize with another
model. Shouldnt we maybe think about an effort for general harmonization
(e.g. w/ ECMA)
(rob) I think it's a good idea and I would consider at some point in the
future have another SC for ECMA harmonization
(mary) creating SC is a lightweight enough process
(rob) I hink the precedent in fact is a good one
(gary) I agree. i just think there is an occasion here to reach out to
ecma as well here.
if the press asks about the UOF SC, the second question will be about ECMA.
(rob) the work with MSOXML will be much easier when it is an official
ecma standard, as there is a free copyright grant then

(michael) any further questions regarding the charter?
we should than agree on a statement that we would welcome such an
harmonization effort as proposed in the charter
- no objection -

6. Comments for 1.1
(michael) Some resolutions were discussed in the last working call. We
would like to propose voting on those resolutions in a single pass
Should any of those resolutions be excluded from the vote
(daniel) if the whitespace issue is in there I would like to drop it
from the vote
(michael) ok
(michael) so we vote for the remaining issues and discuss the whitespace
issue afterwards
Any objections to the collected resolution (except whitespace)
- no objections -

6.1 Whitespace
(daniel) my concern is that the current spec cannot be interpreted in
the way it was clarified. The spec is ambiguous an mentioning whitespace
compression and referencing HTML
(michael) the intent was to allow pretty printing of the textual doc
specification
(lars) html retains space in its document model, html does not need to
export anything
(michael) so we are almost in agreement and the proposal is to drop the
reference to HTML and propose our own wording here
ACTION: michael to propose alternate wording on the mailing list

(michael) next call will be coordination call

- call ends -

7. New Action Items

Michael to propose new wording for whitespace handling.

8. Next Conference Call

Coordination call: 2006-09-19 3:00PM-4:00PM UTC

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