Re: [dita-adoption] Agenda: DITA Adoption TC Meeting - 05-04-2021

[Keith Schengili-Roberts <keith@precisioncontent.com>]

One of my tasks was to investigate the ISO as a standards body and its relevancy to us. It is the largest standards organization in the world, and its focus is very much on the making of standards, and little to do with promoting them. Membership happens at the country-level, so people join the ISO organization for their country. For the US it is ANSI, and its membership fees are based on company revenues, with the lowest costing $1,165 US per year. It should also be noted that the ISO charges for the purchase of a copy of a standard, typically about $120 US. 

I also investigated the Object Management Group (which has the awesome acronym "OMG"), and while it has  

open membership, and is aimed at not-for-profit technology standards, its membership fees are on par with that of ISO.

Cheers!

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From: dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org <dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org> on behalf of Gershon Joseph <gershon@precisioncontent.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 8:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [dita-adoption] Agenda: DITA Adoption TC Meeting - 05-04-2021

 

Please mark my action to contact CIDM as done. I sent the email to Dawn Stevens today.

 

Cheers,

Gershon

 

 

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From: dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org <dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org> on behalf of Dr. Stanley Doherty <stan@modularwriting.com>
Date: Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 0:14
To: dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org <dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: [dita-adoption] Agenda: DITA Adoption TC Meeting - 05-04-2021

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                   AGENDA
          OASIS DITA Adoption Meeting
                  05-04-2021
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ZOOM Connection Info:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84473851179

Meeting ID: 844 7385 1179
Passcode: R2D2
Waiting room . . . enabled.
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1. Ongoing review of OASIS DITA charters:
   a. https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita/charter.php
   b. https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita-adoption/charter.php
  
2. Charter comments and discussions to date:
   a. March 02, 2021 updates to the Adoption TC charter:
      https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/68382/OASIS-DITA-Adoption-Technical-Committee-Charter_draft_03-02-2021.docx
   b. February 02 list of questions to discuss with DITA TC (https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/68327/dita-adoption-to-dita-tc-questions.txt)
   b. February 02 edits to the existing charter (https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/68242/OASIS-DITA-Adoption-Technical-Committee-Charter_notes_02-02-2021.docx)
   c. January 10 comments from Gershon Joseph (below)
  
3. TC name change:

   a. The TC reviewed Chet's 03-16-2021 email feedback on OASIS
      guidelines for renaming existing TCs.

   b. The Adoption TC was not in favor of changing its name if that
      involved:
      - Additional overhead in creating a new TC.
      - Losing the cross-over charter elements currently in the DITA
        TC and Adoption TC charters.

   Resolution: Keep the current TC name. If the Adoption TC picks up
   lots of new members, it can revisit the issue of renaming and
   reconstituting itself.

4. OASIS integration and support:

   a. The TC had a lively discussion about the benefits and drawbacks
      of doing user advocacy work from within the OASIS
      organizational structure.
      - Membership costs
      - Narrow institutional focus on the development of XML language
        specs versus "advancement" of the same.
 
   b. The TC was not confident in its understanding of the
      relative benefits/drawbacks of OASIS relative to other
      relevant standards or professional advocacy organizations.

   Resolution: We need more information from and about other
   organizations.
   - ISO (Keith to contact)
   - CIDM (Gershon to contact)
   - ACM (Stan to contact) DONE
   - Write the Docs (Stan to contact) DONE
   - IEEE (Stan to contact) DONE
   - W3C (TBD)