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

[Cherie Ekholm <cheriee@exchange.microsoft.com>]

<adding back in OIC - sorry for the small r instead of the large R on my last reply>

Let me ask it another way: what do you find different about this PPA market you are defining that is different from the ODF market as a whole?  If the profile was originally written with ODF as a whole in mind, but can now magically be turned into a document that only talks about a PPA market, then what distinguishes this profile from a general conformance class that one might write with the same  shall/should/may statements?

Cherie

-----Original Message-----
From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:48 AM
To: Cherie Ekholm
Subject: RE: [oic] Confused about the purpose of the Interop Profile

Hi Cherie, I think the point is that the profile has in fact been developed with an eye toward PPA interoperability.  The work going into to producing the profile has certainly involved PPA vendors and not web editor or mobile editor vendors.  So off-hand I don't see anything to change except make that focus explicit in the name.  This is a case of making the title better reflect the content, not a matter of changing the content.

Regards,

-Rob




From:
Cherie Ekholm <cheriee@exchange.microsoft.com>
To:
"robert_weir@us.ibm.com" <robert_weir@us.ibm.com>
Date:
03/23/2010 12:12 PM
Subject:
RE: [oic] Confused about the purpose of the Interop Profile



I have not read the profile with an eye toward your idea of focusing it as a desktop productivity application profile, so don't know yet what I'd recommend removing or adding, if anything. We are, however, going in circles as my question to you was the same - if this is no longer a general "touch everything in  ODF" profile but is now targeted only at your PPA idea, what does that focus change? Or perhaps you believe that simply renaming the profile is sufficient to change the focus? That seems a bit odd, but I suppose someone has tried that before.

Cherie

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From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [robert_weir@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:03 AM
To: Cherie Ekholm
Cc: oic@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [oic] Confused about the purpose of the Interop Profile

Cherie Ekholm <cheriee@exchange.microsoft.com> wrote on 03/22/2010
08:00:56 PM:
>
> As noted, this is the conversation that needs to happen Wednesday.
>

Cherie,

I'm sorry.  I'm going to be in transit to the SC34 meetings on Wed.  I
think we have several  other TC members attending those meetings.   So it
isn't clear whether we will be quorate on Wednesday's call.

So if you can indulge me on this one point, let me ask my question again:

>
> I'm not sure what you mean by saying the profile "targets...all of ODF
> 1.1".  Is there anything in particular in the profile that you think is
> not relevant to interoperability with desktop PPA implementations of
ODF?
>

If you have specific objections, I'd love to know them.

Regards,

-Rob