Minutes: XRI TC Telecon 2-3PM PT Thursday 2009-01-15

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

Following is the agenda for the unofficial telecon of the XRI TC at:

Date:  Thursday, 15 January 2009 USA
Time:  2:00PM - 3:00PM Pacific Time (22:00-23:00 UTC)

ATTENDING

Eran Hammer-Lahav
Peter Davis
Markus Sabadello
John Bradley
Drummond Reed
Tatsuki Sakushima
Brian Eaton 
Nat Sakimura
Nick Nicholas
Bob Morgan

GUESTS

Mary McRae


AGENDA

1) SPEC EDITING Q&A WITH TC ADMINISTRATOR MARY MCRAE


Mary introduced herself. She's the Director of TC Administration at OASIS.
She wield's "unending power" in moving specifications through OASIS (her
words, attested to by Drummond).

Mary introduced the basic tools that OASIS supplies. She was careful to
provide the caveat that those tools can help mostly with specification
format and appearance -- they do not actually help enforce the intangible
aspects of "specification quality". 

Her first piece of advice is: "Ask questions". Her second piece of advice
is: "Don't assume that older specs still represent current practices." She
also has shared her advice via the answers she posted to our questions at:

	http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xri/InfoForEditors

Mary explained the basic OASIS spec process:

* The editors prepare a Working Draft using the template they select.
* When the Working Draft is mature enough, the TC votes it to a Committee
Draft.
* The TC chair(s) can then request a Public Review. That's when Mary first
reviews the spec with a fine-toothed comb.
* Once the spec is ready at that point, it should be pretty much ready for
the final two stages - Committee Specification and OASIS Standard.

Regarding multi-part specs, Mary said only one other spec so far has been
created under the new OASIS rules for multi-part specs. Previous efforts
(e.g. SAML 2.0) did pass multiple specs in a single OASIS Standard vote, but
that is no longer allowed. Drummond said that the DITA example helped make
it clear how the multi-part spec format should work.

	http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/overview/overview.html 

Eran asked about version control. He has been using an XML RFC tool. Mary
said that authoring a spec in almost any XML format is a pretty solid base
to start from. DITA and DocBook are two options. She does not recommend
trying to import from other formats into Word.

Eran asked if the mailing list is adequate for posting a spec for public
disclosure. Mary said it is, but she encourage posting it to Kavi to take
advantage of the tools and indexes there, and also because it enables a link
to be shared via email, rather than a large attachment. Drummond offered to
give a Kavi tutorial to any editor that needed it.


2) DNS DISCOVERY

	http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xri/XrdOne/DNSResolution 

Peter didn't have any further progress. He hopes to have a DNS trust profile
early next week.


3) XRD 1.0 - SCHEMA SECTION

Eran believe he's done with defining the elements and attributes and he just
needs to build around that. He plans to share at least the schema
definitions on the list by tomorrow.

# DRUMMOND to put this on the agenda for Tuesday.


4) XRD 1.0 - TRUST SECTION

Brian reported that he wants to start with drafting the SimpleSign part
because trust profiles are still being worked on.

# ALL TC MEMBERS - please review the SimpleSign page update and send any
feedback.

	http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xri/XrdOne/SimpleSign

# NAT - work on trust profile for OpenID (generic) or OpenID CX (specific).

One key issue Brian mentioend is whether CanonicalIDs for XRDs will actually
be in the cert. This may vary with different trust profiles. Drummond
offered a call with Nat and John on how the XRI-related trust chain would
work.


5) XRI 3.0 - SYNTAX

Drummond report that Tuesday's special telecon had one a few folks but was
very lively. The minutes are at:

	http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xri/200901/msg00077.html

Nick was not able to make it so Drummond still has to circle back with him
regarding the XDI metagraph requirements for XRI 3.0 syntax - they are
planning to talk later today. Provided Nick is satisfied, the next step is a
first Working Draft.

# DRUMMOND and NICK to discuss XDI metagraph requirements.


6) HRDD

Eran noted that just submitted the second draft:

	http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hammer-discovery-01.txt 

# ALL - Review the changes if you have time and send feedback to Eran.


7) NEXT CALL

Drummond suggested that we were reaching the point where we could set up a
self-service issues page on the wiki and devote at least one call each week
(probably Tuesday) to issues resolution.

# DRUMMOND to investigate setting up such a page.

The next call is Tuesday, 8-9AM PT (16:00-17:00 UTC).