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Subject: Chet: WE'RE READY! Final questions to prep for our first Committee Specification Draft vote
HI Drummond,Yes, I noticed that in the last telecon notes. Congrats, this must feel like reaching the final mile of a marathon!On your questions:"Do we need to do anything special to hold a Committee Specification Draft vote? (I suspect you've published something on this—if so just point us to it)."You can read the instructions on approving a draft at https://www.oasis-open.org/resources/tcadmin/approving-a-committee-specification-or-note-draft . That write-up includes sample motion / ballot language you can use. Since you all are working without meetings, I assume you'll be using the TC's ballot facility right?The key considerations in the motion is that you have everything to be published in a Zip file loaded to the TC's document repository and that the title and the the public link to that ZIP file be in the ballot language. That's because I will take that package linked to as the starting point for publication.Also, you will need to make sure that your Roster is up to date. Since you are not holding meetings, anyone who is a Member and has been in the TC for more than 60 days has gained voting rights and should be changed to Voting Member in the roles. Taking a quick look at the roster, I suspect that a lot of people there need to be switched over to have voting rights."We are having some challenges with the DocBook template and things like table formatting."I'm not experienced with using DocBook so I won't be much help there nor would Paul. I think someone like Ken Holman or perhaps someone on the DocBook TC can be more help. Do you want me to see if I can get someone who can talk with you all and help out?A couple of questions from my side:- You are just approving a Committee Spec Draft right now, correct? That is, you are not ready yet to send it out for public review? I ask because if you want to go to public review, the document will need the Conformance Clauses section. That isn't required at the draft stage but is for a public review.- Are the various documents intended to be independent work products that will advance independently towards Committee Specification and ultimately OASIS Standard? Or is the group envisioning one XDI spec made up of multiple parts? I ask because right now, looking at the templates Paul provided and the Core spec, it looks like each work product will be standalone. If they are intended to be parts of a single spec, we should talk. That will make for a very different naming structure.- Joseph is editing correct? Looking at the draft, after approval, what I'll do is work with him on the changes needed to switch it from a working draft to a Commitee Spec Draft. For example, right now, the "This version" links are http://docs.oasis-open.org/xdi/spec-1.0/xdi-core-1.0-wd05.xxx - that's actually an error and will need to be eitherorChanges like that.- Oh right - last question. I noticed that the draft has lots of code examples and then it includes where appear to be normative code - e.g. Appendix A Collected ABNF. The TC Process in section 2.18 says:(7) Computer Language Definitions. All normative computer language definitions that are part of the Work Product, such as XML instances, schemas and Java(TM) code, including fragments of such, must be well formed and valid.
If the ABNF meets this definition (and since I have other specs with ABNF files, I figure it must), then any that meet this will also need to be provided as separate standalone files.Whew. That's all I can think of for now. If you want to talk about any of this, let me know. I'll keep an eye out as you move forward with this. And again, congratulations!Best,/chet--On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:44 AM, =Drummond Reed <drummond@respect.network> wrote:Chet,After 11 years (the XDI TC was chartered in 2004), we are preparing for our first Committee Specification Draft vote on XDI Core 1.0. Joseph Boyle is finishing the conversion of the different spec sections from different authors into right now, and we plan to hold the vote starting Monday Oct 19, so it is finished before Internet Identity Workshop (Oct 27-29).Two questions for you:
- Do we need to do anything special to hold a Committee Specification Draft vote? (I suspect you've published something on this—if so just point us to it).
- We are having some challenges with the DocBook template and things like table formatting. Can we arrange a call sometime in the next 2 weeks with you and/or others at OASIS who are expert in the subject so we can get these ironed out? (The good news is that once we have it worked out for the first spec, the next 9 after that will be much simpler).
Thanks,=Drummond
/chet
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