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Subject: Regrep 11 Feb conf call minutes
OASIS Regrep TC Conference Call Friday 11 February 2000 Minutes attending: Nagwa Abdelghfour, Sun Terry Allen, Commerce One Lisa Carnahan, NIST Una Kearns, Documentum Norbert Mikula, DataChannel Jeff Sutor, Sun Yutaka Yoshida, Sun Priscilla Walmsley, XMLSolutions agenda: - discuss agenda, new items - XML.org update - EBXML update, including Orlando conference - XMI news if any - new items - adjourn Terry described the current state of the XML.org SC (it hasn't been officially established by the OASIS Board) and the project for an initial implementation, which is to be done by Sun and Documentum. Within two weeks of the XML.org meeting in Orlando documents are to be written to establish what the initial implementation has to do; the OASIS spec is to be revised in the light of implementation experience to come so that the implementation matches the spec when the implementation goes live. Various persons discussed the EBXML meeting in Orlando. UML turned out to be the design tool of choice for the Business Process WG as well as the Regrep WG. The EBXML Regrep WG had a considerable turnover of membership from the initial meeting, adding among other Nagwa and Yutaka. The WG finished stating its business requirements, made some progress on use cases, was visited by the Business Proccess and Requirements groups, and had a teleconference with Sridhar Iyengar of Unisys about XMI 1.1. Terry described the results of his investigation into XMI 1.1 and its potential use to knit together the EBXML and OASIS efforts. He has been in correspondence with Iyengar and Steven Brodsky (IBM) about it, and will post a report later; in short, XMI DTDs generated from UML models (via the MOF) are extremely loose and aren't useful outside an environment that enforces the original UML model's constraints. There is no immediate need to solve this problem, but it needs to be worked on before EBMXL expires in a year or so. Norbert,joining later, related that the OASIS Board is working on getting the XML.org SC properly appointed. Earlier, there was also some discussion of voting rules: in our TC, voting is by individuals; at the OASIS membership level, it's by member organization; and the same is true (by contract) for the XML.org SC. Terry reminded of the 14 February deadline for volunteering to be a voting member of the Regrep TC, and promised to send out a list of those who had volunteered on 13 February (in case he's lost track of a volunteer). Una and Lisa asked various questions about implementation of the specification (which shows we're really getting somewhere!), for example, if the initial OASIS implementation really needs to use the zip submission package method and what sorts of things should be retrievable. Terry invited implementors to push back on the spec and suggest alternatives; we are really wedded only to implementing ISO/IEC 11179; even the element names in the DTDs could be changed if implementors have improvements to suggest. Una also brought up the question of FPIs; it would seem that to support SGML DTDs identified only by FPI it will be necessary to provide URIs or them or make them available only through an interface searchable by FPI or figure out something else. Terry promised to send out again his revision of RFC 2483, which specifies a format for requests by URL that we can use for getting a registered object, its registration information, and its "related data" (the 11179 term). Una requested a projector for the San Jose meeting. Terry, noticing that several regulars couldn't make the call this morning, agreed to ask the list if the day and hour are still okay. Ad interim, we'll still plan the next call for two weeks later. Adjourned.
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