Re: [election-services] RE: [election-services-comment] PUBLIC REVIEW COMMENTS DISPOSITION

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@berkeley.edu>]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM, David RR Webber (XML) <david@drrw.info> wrote:
> I would suggest however when providing more examples - this is best handled
> outside of the formal specification.

I guess the feedback I get here is that "diving into" EML is very
difficult for developers... to the extent that, like Google/Pew, they
decide to simply roll their own solution.  If we want people other
than those already using it to use it, we need to recognize that this
complexity is somewhat of a barrier and provide (whether formally or
informally) tools and examples that contextualize the elements of
EML... we've made some strides, but I'm not yet convinced we're there
yet (and I have only so much capacity to help).  For example, maybe
this is a consequence of my only being involved with this TC and not a
few other OASIS TCs, but I don't know what CAM is and how to use it
(other than what wikipedia tells me).

Anyway... what I'm thinking of is an "EML for dummies", I suppose.  I
know that's not terribly sexy, but I'd like to try and have something
like that for 7.0.  And maybe I'm not seeing the full picture... best,
Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
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UC Berkeley School of Information
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
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