Re: re ebxml

["B. Tommie Usdin" <btusdin@mulberrytech.com>]

It seems to me that the situation Terry describes, in which a group
develops a specification outside the OASIS process, with or without the
participation of OASIS members or even OASIS as an organization, is covered
in the process we have been discussing.  This specification would simply
enter the OASIS process fairly late in the life cycle, which we have said
we would allow.

I suggest that this is exactly what should happen, and having a mechanism
for bringing fully-formed specs into the process late is a very important
safety valve.  No matter how good a process we define there will be people
or groups for whom it does not work.  If we allow them to do the bulk of
the work in ways that are comfortable for them, and them have a mechanism
for entering the OASIS process, we can include their works.  We do, I
believe, need a way to ensure that works created outside the OASIS process
are appropriately (I don't know what that means) reviewed before receiving
an OASIS imprimatur, but this should be an expected path into the OASIS
standards library.

-- Tommie

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