RE: [oic] Confused about the purpose of the Interop Profile

[Hanssens Bart <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>]

Hello Cherie,


the interop profile is on the agenda, so we can discuss it during the call on Wednesday
(including renaming / refocusing and/or other suggestions)


Best regards

Bart
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From: Cherie Ekholm [cheriee@exchange.microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 7:16 PM
To: Hanssens Bart; robert_weir@us.ibm.com; oic@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [oic] Confused about the purpose of the Interop Profile

Renaming it is one thing. However, simply changing the name doesn't refocus the intent of the document, which currently still targets the whole of ODF.

Is refocusing the document something that we'll be discussing then at Wednesday's meeting?

Cherie

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From: Hanssens Bart [mailto:Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be]
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 4:41 AM
To: robert_weir@us.ibm.com; oic@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [oic] Confused about the purpose of the Interop Profile


Well, let me first make the small changes requested by the TC Admin in order to send this version out for public review as "interop profile"

Hopefully we'll get feedback from other implementers not part of this TC to see what they think.

Meanwhile we can discuss a better name for it. I like Rob's suggestion for renaming / focusing it on desktop productivity tools. That would fit perfectly in the charter.

Best regards

Bart

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From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [robert_weir@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:30 PM
To: oic@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [oic] Confused about the purpose of the Interop Profile

Cherie Ekholm <cheriee@exchange.microsoft.com> wrote on 03/19/2010
06:07:39 PM:

> Back to the Interop Profile. It would be perfectly appropriate to have
> a profile that, for instance, prohibited the embedding of macros in
> the interest of enhancing portability, if the profile was for a
> vertical that targeted portability or archiving. Or so says the
> charter of OIC and so seem to say the explanations Rob and Bart have
> provided. That does not appear, however, to be what this profile under
> discussion does. This profile seems to broadly target interoperability
> among office suites.
>

Fair point.  I think it would be better if we named this profile, "ODF Interoperability Profile for Desktop Personal Productivity Applications", which unambiguously places it in scope of the horizontal domain profiles mentioned in #5 of the Scope statement.

> Interoperability is great. Advocating it is the basic charter of this
> TC. However, the charter also specifically limits creating normative
> profiles to verticals and horizontals. The entirety of the market, by
> definition, is neither of those.

I agree.  Thus the suggestion to focus on the specific horizontal domain of desktop personal productivity applications for this profile.  It doesn't make sense to have a single interop profile deal with the entire market, since the needs of desktop PPAs differs from mobile apps which differs from web-based editors.

Regards,

-Rob

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