RE: [emergency] Final editorial corrections?

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

I also misunderstood your intent, Art. Hence my last message. I'm not 
sure what a minor flaw is. We've done tests that show what is to me 
an acceptable level of performance. It's passed its vote. A change 
like Committee Draft to OASIS Standard, is, of course acceptable, and 
if what ever is changed doesn't require any debate, I would not 
object. The least hint of disagreement, however, would be verboten 
pour moi.

Ciao,
Rex

At 12:07 PM -0800 3/31/04, Art Botterell wrote:
>Sorry, Bob... I'd been advised by an experienced source (in fact, I 
>believe it was you) that final non-substantive editorial corrections 
>to a standards document are normally permitted prior to publication. 
>(An obvious and unavoidable example is changing the words "Committee 
>Draft" to "OASIS Standard.")
>
>My impression is that that section you cite refers to the process 
>during voting on a Committee Draft, not to the publication of an 
>adopted Standard.  My understanding is that the ballot was completed 
>today at 11:45 AM Eastern time with more than the required number of 
>affirmative votes and no negative votes, and that therefore CAP 1.0 
>is an effective OASIS Standard at this time.  However, there are 
>still the mechanics of publication, which I don't see detailed in 
>the process document.
>
>Anyway, I just wanted to suggest that might we take this final 
>opportunity to correct any minor flaws that didn't change the 
>substance of the standard.  If that's not permitted, that's fine, 
>but if it were, would you object to our doing that?
>
>Maybe our OASIS staff can guide us on this point.
>
>- Art
>
>
>At 2:35 PM -0500 3/31/04, Bob Wyman wrote:
>>Art Botterell wrote:
>>>  see if there are any final editorial corrections
>>>  we should make?
>>	I'm confused... But, this may be simply because I am new to
>>the OASIS process. Nonetheless, it seems to me that the OASIS
>>process[1] is very clear when it says: in Section 3(b)"Member
>>Approval" that:
>>
>>    "Errata or Corrigenda to a submission are not permitted;
>>     if changes are required the Committee Draft must be
>>     withdrawn by the TC, edited, re-approved as a Committee
>>     Draft, then resubmitted."
>>
>>	Given my potentially flawed reading of the published OASIS
>>process, it seems that the *only* avenue available for corrections of
>>any form would be to withdraw the current document and resubmit it
>>after the corrections had been made. Or, are you talking about a V1.x
>>draft that would be submitted for member approval sometime after
>>V1.0's vote is complete? What am I missing?
>>
>>		bob wyman
>>
>>[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php
>>
>>
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