RE: [docstandards-interop-discuss] proposed TC name

[Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>]

Is "documentation" too restrictive
a term though? Human-readable business documents are not "documentation"
necessarily, yet are within the use cases we've discussed.

For maximum clarity we'd probably need
something like "Interoperability between XML document standards for
human-readable content".  Maybe another way to differentiate
human-readable from machine-oriented would be information vs. data - could
we say

"XML Information Standards Interoperability"?

But we might just be opening the door
to the next round of clarifications :-/ Almost anything short enough to
fit into a TC name is going to be open to multiple interpretations, so
maybe we just need something provocative enough to get people to read the
charter, where we can spell out what we mean in more detail.

I do think we need "XML" in
the title to differentiate us from PDF or Word or paper documents.

Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

"Earley, Jim" <Jim.Earley@flatironssolutions.com>

04/23/2007 01:39 PM

To	"Hudson, Scott" <Scott.Hudson@flatironssolutions.com>, <docstandards-interop-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org>
cc
Subject	RE: [docstandards-interop-discuss] proposed TC name

Agreed.  It's readily apparent that the genertic
term "XML Document" is too vague and is
easily construed to mean, "any XML structure (SOAP, RDF, DITA, DocBook,
etc.).

Jim 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Hudson [mailto:scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:36 AM
To: docstandards-interop-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [docstandards-interop-discuss] proposed TC name

I spoke with Eduardo Gutentag at the OASIS Symposium, and he suggested
a new name for
the proposed TC:
Documentation Standards Interoperability TC.

Perhaps this will help disambiguate the type of interoperability we are
proposing?

Best regards,

-- Scott


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