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Subject: Re: [chairs] report on grumblings from some TCs
Good morning Rex. If the concern is that we're not getting public reviews launched fast enough once a TC has formally requested it, we agree. That is why we put some specific response-time and service-level commitments into place earlier this month. See http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/chairs/200602/msg00001.html. We also changed our rules last year to increase the technical requirements associated with specs -- things such as compliance with templates and the provision of final prints for review in some specified file formats -- see, for example, http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#2.18. Frankly, the number of submissions that came in 'ready for review' without meeting those requirements increased. In which case some amount of feedback and correction must occur. (While most of these form requirements in the rules technically apply to all committee specs at any level, as a practical matter the staff often only sees and filters them for the first time when they're proposed for public review.) It's my guess that the degree of delay caused by noncompliance will decrease with time. However, none of that takes away from the need for predictable turn-around time. In the case of public review submissions that is posting or rejection within 5 business days of receipt to the address [tc-admin@oasis-open.org]. The first priority for my colleague Mary McRae's time is to execute on those turn-around times, as described in more detail is included in that 7 February message linked above. We also asked in that message for comments on those deadlines, and they're still welcome. One early one is that many users would prefer 'calendar day' instead of 'business day' deadlines. We plan to make that change once we've spooled a few more comments. Most of those SLA deadlines are procedural service commitments from staff, not enacted rules, so we can adjust them in response to early feedback. Thanks for your feedback. Regards Jamie ~ James Bryce Clark ~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS ~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org At 09:11 AM 2/16/2006, Rex Brooks wrote: >Hi Folks, >Since I span several TCs, SCs and do the chair or co-chair honors on a >couple, while restricting myself to regular voting membership on others, I >wanted to report that I am hearing, and personally noticing some slight >dissatisfaction in the timeliness of moving specs into * * * public review >* * *
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