Next step in the CVA standardization process

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Fellow CLRTC members,

Now that the first week of the new year is done, I'm hoping things 
are starting to get back to normal for committee members.

Our public review for Context/Value Association files was from 16 
October 2009 to 15 December 2009:

   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/codelist/200910/msg00005.html

With many thanks to Viswanath Jayachandran, we have formal comments 
for our consideration in improving the specification for the next 
public review draft:

   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/codelist-comment/200912/msg00000.html
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/codelist-comment/200912/msg00002.html

I would like to discuss these comments over email during this week, 
and convene a short Skype teleconference tentatively scheduled for 
Monday 2010-01-18 17:00UTC to finalize our email discussion.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=01&day=18&year=2010&hour=17&min=0&sec=0

Given that time I regret that our input from New Zealand will likely 
be only be email (unless Juerg can attend at 06:00 his time!).

Please share your thoughts regarding Viswanath's input to the committee.

Please let me know off list if the date and time for the 
teleconference doesn't work for you.  I note some of my customers 
have Martin Luther King Jr. day off work but that others do not, and 
I hope this isn't an impediment.

My travel schedule is such that if we cannot do it then, we may have 
to wait until February.  It would be nice to have it done and produce 
another 15-day public draft.  That review can happen while I'm 
traveling, and we'll have it done during the UBL face-to-face meeting 
in Copenhagen.

Then we will have a committee specification and we can start thinking 
about making it an OASIS standard.

Recall our process:  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php

Note that according to section 3.4 we need to find three Statements 
of Use in order to progress the committee specification to an OASIS 
standard.  According to definition "ai" in section 1, "Statement of 
Use": with respect to a specification, is a written statement by an 
OASIS Organizational Member stating that it is successfully using or 
implementing that specification in accordance with the conformance 
clauses specified in Section 2.18, and stating whether its use 
included the interoperation of multiple independent implementations.

Do we know any OASIS organizational members that are actively using 
Context/Value Association files?  Apparently we cannot cite the UBL 
technical committee as a user, and the latest version of CVA files 
won't be shipped until UBL 2.1 is released.  Actually, there will be 
some preliminary releases of UBL 2.1 using CVA, so perhaps users of 
UBL 2.1 will be able to exploit those CVA files and then can claim to 
be users of CVA files we need for standardization.

But even without standardization, becoming a committee specification 
is very important because of its stability and some anxious users are 
waiting for CS status before working with the files.

Thanks!

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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