RE: request for access to STEP information

[Howard Mason <howard.mason@baesystems.com>]

Please find attached the official consent from ISO for OASIS to be able to make all 
the ISO TC184 SC4 documents (not restricted to PLCS) available on the OASIS website.
  

This has been facilitated by the A-liaison established between the two 
organisations.

This clears action 1/3 from the first meeting.

Howard Mason
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smith@iso.org on 23/10/2003 10:34:27
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Subject:	RE: request for access to STEP information

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Dear Karl,

I was out of the office last week so apologies for the delay in getting back
to you.

In fact, an A-liaison makes the situation even easier since you are free
then to post all SC 4 documents on your internal websites for the purpose of
coordinating OASIS's inputs to the SC. As you possibly know, ISO claims
copyright on all its draft standards (working drafts, committee drafts, DIS,
FDIS etc.) and publications, this largely being to prevent third parties
from being able to sell the documents, but ISO members and liaison
organizations obviously need to distibute such documents to be able to seek
inputs to contribute to the work as well as use publications as reference
documents for related work. As I explained to Howard some weeks ago, we also
authorize completely external groups to distribute published standards for
further standardization purposes, but this is on a case-by-case basis and
subject to the provision that the standards will be on a protected site and
not be publicly accessible.

best wishes,

Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org]
Sent: 2003-10-14 18:04
To: smith@iso.org
Cc: Howard Mason; smith5j@ncr.disa.mil; jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
Subject: request for access to STEP information


Mike:

A number of our members have recently formed a Product Life Cycle
Support Technical Committee at OASIS to develop implementation guidance
for the forthcoming STEP Application protocol on Product Life Cycle
Support (ISO 10303-239), currently under ballot in ISO TC184/SC4.  The
TC has requested OASIS to accept the offer of an A-liaison from SC4,
which I will be following up right away, in order to ensure that it can
give operational experience feedback into the ISO group and help to
influence future development of the standard. Many of the TC members are
also active in the ISO work on PLCS.

(The OASIS PLCS TC is co-chaired by Howard Mason of BAE SYSTEMS and
Jerry Smith of DISA, who are also respectively the Chair and Secretary
of TC184/SC4; information about the TC may be found at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/plcs)

The TC is seeking your permission to offer access to the STEP AP and its
supporting information modules to TC members via the OASIS website in
order to facilitate the planned exploitation of the standard.  The
documents would be held on the OASIS website and made accessible only to
OASIS members participating in the Technical Committee.

We look forward to your favourable consideration of this request.
Please do not hesitate to contact either myself or the TC co-chairs for
any further information that you require.

-Karl

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Karl F. Best
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