RE: [chairs] draft of template for OASIS specs

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Chairs:

(Please forward this to your TC editors.)

I haven't seen many comments regarding the SpecTools templates. At some
point in the near future we will probably require TCs to use these
templates, so if your TC has the opportunity to try out the templates
and provide feedback we would greatly appreciate your doing so.

</karl>
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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
+1 978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:42 AM
> To: chairs; david_marston@us.ibm.com; gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com;
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> Cc: spectools@lists.oasis-open.org; Karl
> Subject: [chairs] draft of template for OASIS specs
>
>
> (TC Chairs: Please forward this message to the editor of your TC's
> specifications)
>
> I am addressing this note to OASIS TC chairs and editors, as well as
> some people who a few months ago expressed some interest in
> this topic.
> This is an OPT-IN request for participation.
>
> As the number of OASIS TCs increases it is becoming more
> obvious that we
> need standards for the documents that our TCs produce. Having
> and using
> templates for our specs will go a long way towards producing more
> consistent results and improving the quality of the work that
> OASIS TCs
> produce.
>
> Norm Walsh and Eve Maler of Sun have, over the past few months, put
> together some draft templates for TCs to try out and comment on. These
> are based on DocBook, and have been successfully used by a
> couple of TCs
> that Norm is editor for. The templates are available at
> http://www.oasis-open.org/spectools/
>
> My intent is to have the TCs try out these templates and provide
> comments, then have Norm and Eve make fixes to complete the
> templates. I
> will be recommending to the OASIS Board that the TC Process
> require use
> of a standard template for all OASIS specifications; once the
> templates
> are complete they would be considered the official template
> that will be
> required for use by TCs.
>
> I have set up a mail list for the purpose of discussing these
> templates.
> Please go to http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl to subscribe to the
> spectools list, or send a message to
> spectools-request@lists.oasis-open.org with "subscribe" as the body of
> the message. Please use this list to send your comments or carry on
> discussions about the templates.
>
>
> </karl>
> =================================================================
> Karl F. Best
> OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
> +1 978.667.5115 x206
> karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org
>
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