[xslt-conformance] Minutes for December Teleconference 2001-12-1714:00-16:00EDT

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Voting Member Meeting

Minutes for December Teleconference 2001-12-17 14:00-16:00EDT

Roll call and quorum
   Expected:
     Kirill Gavrylyuk, Microsoft Corporation
     Lofton Henderson
     G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd. (chair)
     Pranav Kandula, Microsoft Corporation
     David Marston, Lotus Development Corp.
     Carmelo Montanez, NIST
     Lynda VanVleet, Class Integrated Quality, Inc.
     Norm Walsh, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
   Regrets:
     Stan Swaren, Pelican Inquiry
   Absent:
     Ben Robb, cScape

Agenda
  - amendments
    - none
  - motion to accept
    - move: Loften; 2nd: Carmelo

Minutes of the last meeting
  - review of minutes of last meeting
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200111/msg00018.html
  - motion to accept minutes of meeting
    - move: Lynda; 2nd: Norm

Membership
  - membership changed to reflect attendance

Reports of standing committees:
  - Comparing Output and Role of Canonical XML - Lynda, Carmelo, Pranav
    - Pranav undertaking HTML Infoset and Prototype test bench
    - Lynda to send link to list of IBM Alphaworks canonicalizer is available
  - Discretionary Items - Dave, Pranav
    - nothing new to report
    - new gray areas
  - Web Site Maintenance - Carmelo, Lynda

Outstanding action items
  - 20000906-ACT-8: (Ken) model and prototype XML report and exclusion instance
    - work in progress, moving on to catalogue building
  - 20000906-ACT-9: (Carmelo) model and prototype rendition control 
instance and XHTML production working with Ken's results
    - pending Ken's work
  - 20010213-ACT-5: (Pranav) document proposed HTML information set processes
    - work in progress
  - 20010514-ACT-1: (Carmelo) test review tracking methodology and 
implementation
    - Ken's request for HTML and XML version of status report for use in 
building the catalogue
  - 20010711-ACT-6: (Pranav) a prototype test bench for internal committee use
    - work in progress
  - 20010914-ACT-1: (Dave) - receive components of the "Validation Environment"
    - close
  - 20010914-ACT-2: (Ken) - prepare announcement information with OASIS 
representatives
    - work in progress
  - 20011016-ACT-1: (All) - various preparations for draft package release
    - close
  - 20011120-ACT-1: (Ken) - document use of test file as sufficiency test 
in readme.txt
    - noted that the good and bad test submissions of the validation suite 
could be considered an initial sufficiency test
    - close for now but keep eye on new developments

Agenda items
  - submission
    - many thanks to Dave for orchestrating and delivering the submission 
package
    - many thanks to Lynda for her presentation at conference regarding our 
work and the submission
    - Ken has forwarded draft press release to OASIS
    - do we first invite only a subset of tests for xsl:number?
    - should we have a submission page with submission and review policies, 
details of invitation, link to downloadable ZIP?  (instead of currently 
only downloading the ZIP ... visitors may wish to know more before 
triggering a download)
  - should submissions be public or private? for now we will make the 
submissions public with appropriate indications of informality and raw 
nature; please comment on the list to Dave's post
  - re: review process
    - please indicate to Carmelo the tests you plan to review and your 
review status of each

New and old action items for next meeting
  - 20000906-ACT-8: (Ken) model and prototype XML report and exclusion instance
  - 20000906-ACT-9: (Carmelo) model and prototype rendition control 
instance and XHTML production working with Ken's results
  - 20010213-ACT-5: (Pranav) document proposed HTML information set processes
  - 20010514-ACT-1: (Carmelo) test review tracking methodology and 
implementation
  - 20010711-ACT-6: (Pranav) a prototype test bench for internal committee use
  - 20010914-ACT-2: (Ken) prepare announcement information with OASIS 
representatives
  - 20011217-ACT-1: (All) please send to Carmelo a list of tests you plan 
to review and their status on an ongoing basis as submissions are accepted

Next meeting dates
  - January 17, 2002 14:00-16:00EST teleconference
  - (tentative) February 5, 2002 13:00-15:00EST
  - (tentative) March 20, 2002 13:00-15:00EST

Acknowledgements

Adjournment
  - 14:55 with everyone wishing everyone else happy holidays and a happy 
new year!

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