RE: [tm-pubsubj] RE: Groups - oasis - Newballot"Approval of Deliverable 1 as TC Recommendation"

[Mary Nishikawa <nisikawa@fuchinobe.oilfield.slb.com>]

At 03:07 PM 5/12/2003 +0200, Bernard Vatant wrote:

>Hi Mary
>
> > I am not sure if I can actually vote since my membership expired
> > as of May 1, 2003, but I do have some feedback.
>
>Well, please do vote since you are still listed as a voting member.

Thanks Bernard, I think that OASIS gives me some time before they cut this 
off, don't know by how much though. Better get it in soon, I guess  :)


> > I think that the Editors of this document should be Steve Pepper and
> > Bernard Vatant. Bernard, you had been working on this up until
> > the very end.
>
> > Using "Author" is not appropriate. This was committee work and a
> > compilation of the ideas of many.
>
>Good points. "TC Editor" is a specific status defined in OASIS TC
>guidelines, but that we have not used in our TC.
>
>See: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/guidelines.php#duties_officers
>
>"The TC Editor is the person who maintains the specification document(s)
>for the TC. The editor writes drafts, updates the drafts with input from
>the TC members, and makes the drafts available to TC members and to the
>public by posting them on the TC mail list and/or giving them to the
>webmaster to post on the web page."
>
>Under this definition, I agree that Steve is effectively the editor of the
>last draft, even if I've put a lot of it in the beginning, he's the one who
>got the blood out of the stone :)

OK Bernard, as long as you agree with this.
I have been affected too much by how we do these kinds of things here in Japan.


> > We should also have a section of all the contributors. As I
> > mentioned, this was a group effort over a period of almost two years.
>
>Yes. All current and past TC members should be mentioned as contributors at
>the end of the document.

Bernard,  the list of contributors should be placed at the beginning of the 
document after editor. We can place acknowledgements for those who are not 
members of the committee but who contributed some ideas, such as Kal Ahmed 
and Eric Miller, for example. The committee members who contributed to the 
specification are listed at the beginning. See the SAML specification.


>Thanks for those remarks

You are quite welcome.

>PS: Speaking about vocabulary, I put on the ballot "TC Recommendation".
>This is incorrect terminology, the correct one being "Committee
>Specification". I will correct in in the ballot description. See again
>OASIS guidelines at:
>
>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/guidelines.php#spec_standard
>
>You find here all the process from Committee Specification to OASIS
>Standard, BTW answering the questions we had in London meeting about it ...

Thanks. I will check it.

Cheers,
Mary