Minutes for August Teleconference

[david_marston@us.ibm.com]

Minutes for August meeting -- August 19, 2004 (via teleconference)
(scribed by DM)

Roll call and quorum

Voting members present:
David Marston, IBM Research
Joanne Tong, IBM Toronto
June Ng, IBM Toronto
Gauri Sharma, Sun
Zarella Rendon, Individual Member

Guest:
Karl Best, OASIS

Minutes of the last meeting(s)
Approved July minutes without amendment

Anouncements
- Karl reminds all to review the proposed Intellectual Property policy.
  We will need to transition someday, meaning that we would vote on
  whether our test suite is royalty-free or not. DM points out that
  there is a question about how the TC would choose to incorporate IP
  from the Apache Software Foundation, which has a compatible license
  but does not submit stuff elsewhere. DM will present the concerns to
  IBM's voting rep, to become part of IBM's feedback on the policy.

Action Items from earlier meetings
- Convert Carmelo's XQuery F&O testcases into XSLT (Carmelo and ??)
  The XQuery Test Task Force, where Carmelo is now active, will seek to
  coordinate with XSLT 2.0 testing efforts. More planning needed.

Agenda items
- Who is writing test cases?
  XSLT 1.0: nobody we know of right now.
  Gauri will be doing XQuery tests and has joined the W3C XQuery TTF.
  IBMers other than June and Joanne will be doing XQuery tests; Joanne
  knows who is doing what.
- Notes from W3C XQuery Test Task Force initial meeting
  See elsewhere in these minutes.
- Any news from the W3C WGs?
  Nothing noted.
- Any change in our direction?
  Hope to have more clarity about XSL WG, XQuery WG, and their respective
  testing efforts soon.

Actions
- Took a straw poll on formally moving the 1.0 test suite to Committee
  Draft status. KB explained some implications. DM noted that Elliotte
  Rusty Harold has some feedback pending. Conclusion: we will defer
  until September and try to get some of ERH's comments.

Membership
- No activity on this front

Action items for next meeting
- DM to engage ERH about submitting comments and/or participating.
- DM to look at whether the public can see what we are doing and to
  solicit more comments if feasible.
- DM to use Kavi's formal call-for-votes mechanism to get the move
  to Committee Draft status underway.

Next meeting dates
- September 23 confirmed
- October 21 tentatively earmarked

Acknowledgements
  Thanks to Joanne/IBM for providing the phones for the meeting