Re: [chairs] RE: [members] OASIS member review of proposed revision ofTC Process

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Matthew MacKenzie <mattm@adobe.com> was heard to say:
| "All resources of the TC and its associated
| subcommittees, including web pages, documents, email
| lists and any other discussions, must be located only
| on facilities provided by OASIS; TCs and SCs may not
| conduct business or technical discussions, store
| documents, or host web pages on non-OASIS servers. All
| web pages, documents, and email archives of all TCs
| and SCs shall be publicly visible."
|
| So...will OASIS also be providing us with email accounts?  I suggest
| softening this passage considerably because at the end of the day if
| OASIS restricts the tools we use,  many of us will end up finding a
| new home for our standards work.

Indeed. Quoting the message I sent to the review list[1] before I
noticed that discussion was taking place here:

>  All resources of the TC and its associated subcommittees, including
>  web pages, documents, email lists and any other discussions, must be
>  located only on facilities provided by OASIS; TCs and SCs may not
>  conduct business or technical discussions, store documents, or host
>  web pages on non-OASIS servers.
>
>By a strict interpretation of this clause, I am forbidden from
>mirroring the DocBook specifications and schemas on docbook.org. Is
>that the intent? Or is the intent merely that no TC content may appear
>solely on non-OASIS servers?
>
>Suppose a third party, unaffiliated with OASIS or the TC constructs
>such a mirror? Will OASIS pursue having those materials removed from
>the mirror?

I feel compelled also to note that this requirement places a
considerable burden on chairs and secretaries coming as it does in
advance of an improved (i.e. useful and workable) document repository
administered by OASIS.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tcproc-member-review/200410/msg00001.html

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