Re: FW: Request to the OASIS Advisory Committee on Technical Committe es f or a DSML TC

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@eng.sun.com>]

No.

This is the process we currently have. If they can live with it
so should we. Let's just make sure that we finish the next
process with all due diligence.

Eduardo


Terry Allen wrote:
> 
> I just want to observe that the majority of requests to date
> have been for the formation of a TC to bless an existing
> specification.  I've just engaged in some straightening
> up on the tpaml list; the ciq folks, who haven't gotten
> started, assume their spec is the point of departure, and
> this one is along the same lines.
> 
> BTW, the original request for a tpaml list was particularly
> bald:
> 
> In order to initiate the process for establishing Trading Partner Agreement
> Markup Language (tpaML) as an XML.org Recommendation IBM hereby requests
> that the ACTC authorize the creation of a mailing list in support of this
> effort and appoint John Ibbotson of IBM (john_ibbotson@uk.ibm.com) as the
> discussion leader.  We are pleased to have OASIS as the driving force to
> facilitate the adoption of trading partner agreements in a vendor-neutral
> manner.
> 
> Now, it's perfectly reasonable for people to want to engage
> in such activity.  But in the PAC we're contemplating allowing
> people to brings specs into the process at later stages than
> the formation of a TC to talk about them (e.g., without
> formation of any TC at all).  The TCs that SGML Open/OASIS
> has sponsored in the past (with the exception of Docbook)
> have been intended to discuss issues and *then* come up with
> specs (the XML Tables committee was a telescoped version of
> this procedure).
> 
> So we might want to consider whether what would work best for
> these requestors would be something other than a TC, for example,
> a straight "submission" to the OASIS Board for a vote of the
> members (as we anticipate allowing when the PAC gets through).
> 
> regards, Terry

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