Notification of XRI TC

["Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@cordance.net>]

Mary,

Gabe and I haven't heard back from you yet about proceeding with the
advancement of XRI Syntax 2.0 Committee Draft 02 per my original message
below. I checked the TC process document about this procedure:

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3.3 Approval of a Committee Specification

After the public review of a Public Review Draft the TC may approve the
specification as a Committee Specification. The approval of a Committee
Specification shall require a Special Majority Vote. The TC Chair shall
notify the TC Administrator that the TC is ready to vote on the approval of
the specification, and provide to the TC Administrator the location of the
editable versions of the specification files. The TC Administrator shall set
up and conduct the ballot to approve the Committee Specification.

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This clarifies that Gabe and I need to formally notify you that the XRI TC
like to vote on approval of XRI Syntax 2.0 Committee Draft 02 as a Committee
Specification and simultaneously vote to submit it to OASIS for an OASIS
Standard vote. This email is our formal notification (I assume it suffices;
I'm cc'ing the XRI TC list for an archived copy.)

Given the geographic diversity of our TC, we would prefer to do this via an
online ballot, however at the same time we wish to complete the process in
time to submit the specification for an OASIS vote in December. In order to
meet this criteria, according to section 3.4 of the TC process document,
"The above submission must be made by the 15th of any month to the TC
Administrator, who shall have until the end of the month to complete
administrative processing and checking for completeness and correctness of
the submission."

Therefore an online vote that begins Monday November 7 will complete on
Monday, November 14, in which case we can make the submission to the TC
Administrator later on the 14th or on Tuesday, November 15.

However this means we will want to begin the online ballot first thing
Monday morning, November 7.

Can you arrange for the online ballot to commence at that time? If Gabe and
I need to do anything, please send us email or feel free to call me at
206.618.8530.

Thanks for your help,

=Drummond 
http://public.xdi.org/=Drummond.Reed



-----Original Message-----
From: Drummond Reed [mailto:drummond.reed@cordance.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:05 AM
To: 'mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org'
Cc: 'James Bryce Clark'; 'Wachob, Gabe'
Subject: URGENT: Questions on XRI TC vote on advancing Syntax 2.0 for OASIS
vote
Importance: High

Mary,

Our public review period on XRI Syntax 2.0 Committee Draft 02 closed with
just one comment from Norm Walsh at Sun that said he didn't think that
Committee Draft 02 did anything to address the W3C TAG comments from the
public review last spring. We discussed that on our TC call this morning and
we continue to feel that W3C TAG is just generally missing the big picture
of what the XRI layer of identifiers is about. (However we are making VERY
significant changes in XRI resolution in order to accommodate backward
compatability with HTTP URIs. That Committee Draft should be done shortly.)

That doesn't have any affect on XRI Syntax, however, so we are very
confident in proceeding to a vote to advance XRI Syntax 2.0 Committee Draft
02 for an OASIS vote.

We want to hold this vote online (since we have time) starting TODAY, so
that we can finish next Friday and then submit the spec in time for the Nov.
15th deadline so we can have the vote in December (assuming you still feel
that month will work.)

Thus two questions for you:

1) How should the online ballot to advance XRI Syntax 2.0 Committee Draft 02
to an OASIS Standard vote be worded? Are there any other special
requirements?

2) What else must be prepared to submit the spec as soon as the vote is
complete?

Thanks,

=Drummond