NOTES from 10 March 2000 meeting

["Laura Walker" <laura.walker@oasis-open.org>]

The following are minutes taken at the 10 March 2000 meeting of the Advisory
Committee of XML.ORG.

ACXO Members:
 CommerceOne
 DataChannel
 Documentum
 GCA
 IBM
 Softquad
 Sun Microsystems

ACXO Chair: Executive Director of OASIS
Present:
 ACXO members:
   Chair - OASIS Executive Director (Laura Walker)
   CommerceOne (Terry Allen)
   DataChannel (Norbert Mikula)
   Documentum (Una Kearns)
   IBM (Michael Weiner)
   SoftQuad (Lauren Wood)
   Sun Microsystems (Simon Nicholson)
 Others:
   Nagwa Abdelefour (representing regrep implementation team, Sun)
   Jon Bosak (representing OASIS PAC)

Absent:
   GCA

ORIGINAL AGENDA
Update on RegRep status (U. Kearns)
Update on ebXML RegRep (T. Allen)
Discussion of IP and Business issues for RegRep (All)
Goals for 2000 (All)
AOB
 - Reorder agenda to accommodate Una's schedule
 - Vote on approving Sun/Documentum proposal
 - Comments on funcspec
 - Formation of the Rapid Response Team
 - Reset schedule


REWORKED AGENDA

Status of XML.ORG members
Update on ebXML RegRep (T. Allen)
Schedule future meetings
Discussion of IP and Business issues for RegRep (All)
Goals for 2000 (All)
Update on RegRep status (U. Kearns)
Formation of the Rapid Response Team
Status of contract


MINUTES

The Chair called the meeting to order.

Laura Walker moved that the ACXO mailing list shall consist only of
employees of XML.ORG sponsoring organizations
2nd by Simon Nicholson
Further, Jon Bosak moves that the mailing list archives not be publicly
available.
Amendment vote: Unanimous
Motion vote: Unanimous

Status of XML.ORG members
 - SAP - is in the process of signing contract
 - GCA - has identified rep (Paul)
 - Oracle - need a new contact

Update on ebXML RegRep (T. Allen)
 - want to check in UML model and have registry
   spit out other formats (TMWG; Edifact)
 - ACXO & XML.ORG regrep impl team should look at ebXML use
   cases and provide feedback
 - design issues related to how to get from UML
   to something else

Discussion of IP and Business issues for RegRep (All)
 - IP Policy in General (see "CONTINUING ISSUES", below)
 - IP as it applies to submissions
     IP STATEMENT - OWNERSHIP
     DECISION: Every Submitter must certify that they have the
     right and authority to submit. (Legalese to come; see action items)

     NOTE: Add general information somewhere on the site:
     "Every one submitting to the XML.ORG Regrep has had to certify the
above."

     IP STATEMENT - USE
     DECISION: Submitting Organization (SO) shall
     explicitly agree to or decline to agree to accept The
     OASIS "Free/Fair Use" Intellectual Property Statement:
     a. As is, no modifications (reuse) (e.g, for parsing)
     b. Any use, including modifications (under certain conditions)
     c. Other - legacy

     NOTE: in funcspec, we need an additional metadata field
     designating SO's IP choice for use

     NEXT STEP: M.Weiner to investigate options for b (above) and to
     report to ACXO on Tuesday, 21 March.
     [See opencontent.org for example of b.]

Schedule future meetings
- Next concall scheduled for Thursday 16 Mar 9-10 AM PST
- Weekly concalls Tuesdays 11-12 AM PST beginning 21 March. IBM to host.
- Next F2Fs:
  - Friday 24 March 9:30-4:00 PM in Menlo Park (Sun)
  - Monday 10 April 10:00-4:00 PM in Pleasanton (Documentum) - tentative


Formation of the Rapid Response Team
- The rapid response team will be the ACXO

Update on RegRep status (U. Kearns)
 - Proposal
 - Funcspec
(see presentation to be distributed by U. Kearns)


Status of contract
 - SAP and IBM have provided comments
 - Softquad and Documentum have no comments
 - Goal is to gather all input by 31 March and provide to OASIS
   counsel for revision of contract, to be signed by all by
   mid-April



ACTION ITEMS

All
- Collect sample data for regrep
  - for regrep
  - work w/NIST

Regrep ref impl team
 - review ebXML use cases and provide feedback
   (in case we have conflicting workflows)

Walker
- secure SO IP statement for 1) from lawyer

Weiner
- investigate "modifications under certain conditions"
  for IP statement for 2) and present to ACXO

Kearns:
 - distribute policy questions including Documentum assumptions
 - submit software licensing agreement to OASIS Board

All:
 - participate in concall scheduled for Mon 13 March at 7PM PST to resolve
questions regarding policy and design on the regrep ref impl (as identified
by Kearns). Goal is to answer all outstanding questions by Thursday 16
March.


AGENDA ITEMS FOR UPCOMING MEETINGS
Taxonomy/Classification Update
Resolve language for USE IP Policy
Business Plan
OASIS Staffing Requirements
Goals for 2000
Launch Plan
Review IP policy
 - needed June/July time frame
     Issue: reversal of IETF position of aware of claims,
       that they need to investigate them
     Language should be consistent with that which the PAC is working on