Why not use ebXML Registry for OASIS documentr management?

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>]

Hi Karl,

I am curious if you have considered using an ebXML Registry for all your 
document management needs.
I would welcome your engaging with the TC if the specs are lacking some 
critical features. I would be interested
in understanding what led you to subversion instead of ebXML Registry.

An obvious missing feature is version control and you may not be aware 
but the TC is working on adding version control
to our version 3.0 specs.

Any other reasons that prevented you from using ebXML Registry as your 
doc management system?

-- 
Regards,
Farrukh


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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl F. Best" 
>> <karl.best@oasis-open.org>
>> To: <david@drrw.info>
>> Cc: "'James Bryce Clark'" <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:58 PM
>> Subject: invitation for the CAM TC to test doc mgmt system
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>>> David:
>>>
>>> You're probably aware that OASIS staff has begun building a document 
>>> management system to provide our TCs with a means to manage the 
>>> documents that they produce. The current Kavi doc repository, while 
>>> providing some useful functionality, has serious limitations 
>>> particularly in the areas of version control and persistent URLs.
>>>
>>> While we're still at an alpha stage of development, we would like to 
>>> invite a small number of TCs to participate in testing. The purpose 
>>> of this alpha test is to ascertain whether SVN is indeed the correct 
>>> platform upon which OASIS should build its document management system.
>>>
>>> We on OASIS staff would like to invite your TC to participate in the 
>>> alpha test because we felt that the TC
>>>
>>> * is active, and probably has multiple people editing documents
>>> * has multiple, but a manageable number of, documents in development
>>> * has multiple document types in development
>>> * might be willing and able to put some time into this, and would be 
>>> willing to abide by the testing rules
>>>
>>> This alpha document management system is an implementation of 
>>> Subversion (SVN) with a Kavi authentication layer. The current 
>>> implementation (April 2004) includes only the native SVN 
>>> functionality. This consists, basically, of checkout/in, version 
>>> control, change merge for text-based formats, and persistent URL. A 
>>> users guide and additional information for Subversion may be found 
>>> at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ General information about Subversion 
>>> is available at http://subversion.tigris.org
>>>
>>> After the alpha test, additional functionality will be developed by 
>>> OASIS staff to fulfill the set of requirements developed with the 
>>> input of the TC chairs in early 2004. Functionality such as 
>>> searching, granularity of permissions, a default/base directory 
>>> structure, additional document metadata, GUI clients for non-Windows 
>>> platforms, management of packages of files, and notification to TC 
>>> members upon file checkin all still need to be provided.
>>>
>>> Once we've completed development and rolled out the doc management 
>>> system each TC (and SC) will have its own SVN repository, and only 
>>> members of the TC or SC will have RW rights. Non-TC or SC members, 
>>> including other OASIS members and the public, will have Read rights 
>>> only.
>>>
>>> It must be assumed that this current SVN implementation is alpha 
>>> only. Critical functionality has still not yet been developed. In 
>>> addition, until we have made the final decision that SVN is the 
>>> platform upon which the OASIS document management system will be 
>>> built, we cannot assume that this current implementation will 
>>> survive; therefore the TC must continue to use the Kavi doc 
>>> repository for their real work. The TC must operate under the 
>>> assumption that everything that they put in this repository could 
>>> disappear at the end of the test. (There is no guarantee that we 
>>> will use either this software platform or this particular 
>>> instantiation of the repository going forward; major changes may 
>>> also be made to the repositories, depending on the results of the 
>>> testing.)
>>>
>>> Our intent is to start four weeks of testing on 19 April; comments 
>>> and feedback would be returned to me for compilation.
>>>
>>> If your TC would be interested in participating please let me know 
>>> by mid next week.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> -Karl
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> =================================================================
>>> Karl F. Best
>>> Vice President, OASIS
>>> office  +1 978.667.5115 x206     mobile +1 978.761.1648
>>> karl.best@oasis-open.org      http://www.oasis-open.org
>>>
>>>
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