Re: [chairs] Re: Chairs: Requesting your feedback on comment resolution logs

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Chet,

On 04/26/2012 02:52 PM, Chet Ensign wrote:
> First of all, thank you for the feedback thus far. This has been very
> helpful to me. I take the following key points from this discussion:
>
> - Keep it simple

True but that should be for those making comments as well as the TCs.

For example:

> The Draft Review System provides a simple web-based interface that 
> allows users to provide their comments online, thus reducing the need 
> for costly transcription of comments received via letter or email. The 
> draft document is displayed to users, divided into sections that can 
> each be commented on individually. Comments automatically reference 
> the section of document on which they were made.

Can any of the options you offer below:

1) provide comments directly *in* the draft document

2) automatically reference the section of the document where they are made

3) avoid transcription of comments

4) Not listed above but changes to the draft are made directly in the 
document where the comments occur.

No?

Imagine #4 for tracking the disposition of comments. (An OASIS 
requirement by the way.)

Moreover, the Draft Review System:

> The Draft Standards Review System reduces the cost and complexity of 
> managing public and private comment on draft standards and 
> specifications. Standards organizations need to gather feedback on 
> draft standards and draft specifications, from the public and from 
> specific groups. This widens participation in standards creation, 
> increases the quality of the final documents, and helps identify the 
> users with an interest in that document.

Public and private comments, widening participation in the standards 
process, etc.

Is this vapour ware?

Is this smoke and mirrors?

No! BSI (British Standards Institute) has had this software in operation 
for *years.*

OASIS would have to have "standards" for work at OASIS but then that 
should not be odd for a standards organization.

It is unseemly for our TCs to expect other people to follow "standards," 
when they follow none of their own.

Anyone who wants further documentation can write to me off-list or on.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

PS: I freely admit that I will be among the first to grumble and 
complain about changes or requirements I don't like. But, I want an 
OASIS that follows standards to produce high-quality standards and uses 
the best technology available to do so. That starts with a Board that 
expects excellence and accepts nothing less.

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Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB) - member

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