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Subject: Re: standards process
Looks good to me. Thanks, Karl.
/ "Karl Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org> was heard to say:
| Norm:
|
| Looks good. I'll send out the ballot on Monday. Here's what it'll say. Let
| me know if I should change anything.
|
| ==========
| OASIS members:
|
| The DocBook Technical Committee has submitted to OASIS the latest version of
| the DocBook DTD, and asks that the OASIS membership vote to approve it as an
| OASIS Specification. The submission meets the requirements of the technical
| committee process (see http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml),
| as follows:
|
| 1. The DocBook Technical Committee has submitted DocBook v4.1.2, an XML
| version of the DTD, and v4.1, an SGML version of the DTD, and certifies that
| these are valid DTDs or their type. The DTDs may be found at
| http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/ and
| http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.1/
|
| 2. The submission is documented. DocBook 3.1 was fully documented by
| DocBook: The Definitive Guide at http://docbook.org/tdg/. The changes
| introduced in DocBook 4 have not (yet) been integrated into TDG, but they
| are available at http://docbook.org/tdg/40updates/
|
| 3. The English-language summary of the specification is as follows:
|
| DocBook is a DTD maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of
| OASIS. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about
| computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to
| these applications).
|
| Because it is a large and robust DTD, and because its main structures
| correspond to the general notion of what constitutes a "book," DocBook
| has been adopted by a large and growing community of authors writing
| books of all kinds. DocBook is supported "out of the box" by a number
| of commercial tools, and there is rapidly expanding support for it in
| a number of free software environments. These features have combined
| to make DocBook a generally easy to understand, widely useful, and
| very popular DTD. Dozens of organizations are using DocBook for
| millions of pages of documentation, in various print and online
| formats, worldwide.
|
| 4. Three OASIS members have certified to me that they are sucessfully using
| the specification. They are Sun Microsystems (Norm Walsh), Arbortext (Paul
| Grosso), and CommerceOne (Terry Allen).
|
| 5. There were no previous unsucessful ballots for this submission, so no
| account of comments is required.
|
| 6. The archives for the discussions of the DocBook Technical Committee are
| available at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/
|
| As specified by the Technical Committee Process, balloting takes place as
| follows:
|
| - The OASIS membership has 30 days to respond to this ballot; balloting will
| close on 31 October 2000. One vote from each OASIS member organization is
| allowed; an organization may change its vote by sending in another vote up
| until the close of balloting.
|
| - Votes should be sent to tc-voting@lists.oasis-open.org. You should state
| the name of the OASIS member organization and the vote, e.g. "XYZ
| Corporation votes YES on the DocBook specification." Archives of votes are
| available at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-voting/
|
| - I will announce the results of the ballot within seven days of the end of
| the voting period.
|
| </karl>
| ============================================================
| Karl F. Best
| OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
| 978.667.5115 x206
| karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org
|
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
| > Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 4:09 PM
| > To: Karl Best
| > Cc: docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org; Paul Grosso; Terry Allen
| > Subject: Re: standards process
| >
| >
| > / "Karl Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org> was heard to say:
| > | > What constitutes certification?
| > |
| > | I need statements (email is okay) from representatives of three member
| > | organizations.
| >
| > >From Paul Grosso, Arbortext:
| >
| > This message is to confirm that Arbortext, an OASIS member, both
| > distributes and uses as part of its current Epic series products
| > the DocBook 4.0 document type.
| >
| > >From Norman Walsh, Sun Microsystems:
| >
| > Sun has successfully used the DocBook V4.0 document type.
| >
| > >From Terry Allen, CommerceOne:
| >
| > Yes, Commerce One has used Docbook 4 successfully.
| >
| > | So all we're lacking is three member organizations to certify
| > that they use
| > | the proposed standard. As long as I have this in the next
| > couple of days I
| > | can get it out by the deadline on Oct 1st. I'll write up a
| > ballot and get it
| > | sent out.
| >
| > There you go. Let me know if there's anything else I can do.
| >
| > Be seeing you,
| > norm
| >
| > --
| > Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Endurance is frequently a form of
| > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | indecision.--Elizabeth Bibesco
| > Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |
| >
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | One's never alone with a rubber duck.
http://nwalsh.com/ |
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