Re: XSLT-CONFORMANCE Mailing List

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

Jon asked:

>The question here is whether the mailing list at this stage should
>be public (i.e., visible beyond the rather large circle of OASIS
>members and members/employees of OASIS member organizations).  I
>think now that the answer should be No, just as it is (implicitly)
>in Robert's -- a society that has not yet met for the first time
>doesn't need to keep minutes.  I think that people who are just
>kicking things around in advance of conducting business don't need
>to make their deliberations public (remembering again that they
>are still visible within OASIS).
>
>Other opinions?

It seems to me that at the point that they are asking for an OASIS resource
(the  mailing list) they should be open enough to allow any OASIS member
see what they are doing.  It seems obvious that in most cases there will
have been private communications before that (otherwise how would a group
have formed to ask for a list) and that there may be private off-list
conversations after, but that the list should be open.

An option is to put OASIS into the business of providing private mailing
list services to any group of members who ask, as a benefit of membership
and unrelated to the committee process.  I find it unlikely that OASIS has
any interest in doing this (and don't like the smell of it myself), so I
think it reasonable that committee-related lists, even if pre-official
existance of the committee, be open.

-- Tommie

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