["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>] RE: OASIS publication ofISO entity sets?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

Folks,

Here's a message I sent to Karl and his reply. Comments?

I'll see if I can figure out who we should ask at ISO. Charles, for a
start, I guess.

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• From: "Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>
• To: "Norman Walsh" <ndw@nwalsh.com>
• Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:04:13 -0400

Norm:

Possible solutions:

1. DocBook TC (or a subcommittee thereof) does this, either
  a) as a committee spec, with possible submission to OASIS
  b) as just something that's on a web page for people to grab and use
2. Start a separate TC to do (a)

If the work is complete and just needs a rubber stamp I don't think we
should go through the bother of starting a new TC. So that leaves it up to
the DocBook TC.

Option 1b) might be the easiest, but I could see how some people would be
more comfortable if it was actually a spec.

If it's not a current ISO work item then I don't think there should be a
problem with OASIS doing the work; I wouldn't want OASIS to duplicate their
work, but if they're not going to do it then I guess we could. Have you
brought this up with the other members of the TC? If they want to do 1a)
then I don't think I would have much objection. Could someone at ISO be
asked what they would think of this? If they have no objections then we
should do it.


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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 12:48 PM
> To: Karl Best
> Subject: OASIS publication of ISO entity sets?
>
>
> Karl,
>
> At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention last week, several people asked
> me why we (the DocBook TC) doesn't publish the XML version of the ISO
> entity sets as a separate archive. (In particular, they were surprised
> that I was opposed to having them ripped out of the DocBook
> distribution and packaged separately for Linux distributions.)
>
> The reason for my reticence is simply the fact that those entity sets
> have never been a proper work item for the DocBook TC and probably
> aren't an appropriate work item for that TC.
>
> The technical solution would seem to be the formation of a TC to
> review and effectively "rubber stamp" the XML versions. But that
> raises the interesting political problem of OASIS standardizing a
> version of an ISO work product.
>
> Really, ISO ought to do this, but that won't happen in our lifetime.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
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