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Subject: RE: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do tohelp?


Right. And if you don't like what tc-admin gives you, work it out between you and TC-admin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Goodner [mailto:mgoodner@microsoft.com]
> Sent: 22 April 2010 17:21
> To: Patil, Sanjay; Bob Freund; Martin Chapman
> Cc: Mary McRae; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
> 
> If TCs namespaces are generated/assigned in the futures just don't put guids in them and we'll
> probably all be fine.  :-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patil, Sanjay [mailto:sanjay.patil@sap.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:40 AM
> To: Bob Freund; Martin Chapman
> Cc: Mary McRae; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
> 
> 
> Aren't namespaces supposed to be opaque? So unless they are excessively long or practically painful in
> some other way, the TCs shouldn't care much about their composition, I think.
> 
> As far as their uniqueness goes, I think this can be better managed by the authority who owns the
> domain name (typical component of namespace
> design) and has the overall administrative supervision over the various groups wanting to have their
> own namespaces.
> 
> Basically, Martin's suggestion to have TC's request and get a namespace from the OASIS staff makes
> sense to me.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Sanjay
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Freund [mailto:bob.freund@hitachisoftware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:29 AM
> To: Martin Chapman
> Cc: Mary McRae; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
> 
> Dosen't that just put the show on the other foot?
> What if the TC does not like the looks of the allocated namespace which might be some random string?
> 
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Martin Chapman wrote:
> 
> > How about having a service whereby TCs can request the allocation of a
> namespace, rather than making one up and falling foul of the hard to interpret guidelines. This could
> also be accompanied with a partially filled out rddl document that points to the right places.
> >
> > Martin.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mary McRae [mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org]
> >> Sent: 21 April 2010 20:27
> >> To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> >> Subject: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration
> do to help?
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >>  If you've submitted a specification for public review or CS ballot
> recently, you've probably met
> >> Kim. I'm thrilled to have her on board and hopefully we're now in
> good shape to get your documents
> >> turned around quickly once again.
> >>
> >>  That said, I have at least a dozen ideas of services we can once
> again offer, or new services, to
> >> make your lives a bit easier, but I thought I would ask you for your
> ideas rather than deciding for
> >> you. There are some caveats of course:
> >>
> >> a. Neither Kim nor I have the power or the skillset to change
> anything about the way Kavi works.
> >> b. We're not talking about changes to the TC Process.
> >>
> >> So, for instance:
> >>
> >> - Would you find a template for recording meeting minutes helpful? If
> yes, in what flavors?
> >>
> >> - Would you like us to take over creation of spec covers? (as in
> you'll use a temporary cover which
> >> would become part of the template, you would provide us with whatever
> information necessary, and we
> >> would create the cover pages with all the appropriate links and make
> sure they work before uploading
> >> to docs.oasis-open.org?)
> >>
> >> - Would you like us to review your specifications prior to TC ballots
> so you don't need to go back and
> >> fix stuff afterwards?
> >>
> >> - Would you like us to call in to TC meetings periodically just to
> hear our voices and answer any
> >> questions you might have?
> >>
> >> - Would you like more training materials? If yes, is there a
> particular topic you'd like to see
> >> covered?
> >>
> >> Remember these are just some of *my* ideas; I want to hear *your*
> ideas. I need to know what your TOP
> >> request is; you can have more than one, but please list in order of
> priority. While you're free to
> >> discuss on this list, please send your actual list to me so I can
> track them.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Mary
> >>
> >> Mary P McRae
> >> Director, Standards Development
> >> Technical Committee Administrator
> >> OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
> >> email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> >> web: www.oasis-open.org
> >> twitter: @fiberartisan  #oasisopen
> >> phone: 1.603.232.9090
> >>
> >> Standards are like parachutes: they work best when they're open.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
> 


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