[humanmarkup] Our next meeting==Fwd: CALL INFO

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Everyone,

Following is the call-in information for our August meeting next 
week, Wednesday, August 21. 2002 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time. I will 
be posting a suggested agenda Monday or Tuesday next week, when I 
have a bit more information in hand.

I would like to see as much participation as we can muster because 
one item I know I want on the agenda will be approving the milestone 
target of September 31, 2002 to get our first specification out to 
OASIS-wide approval. That will be the Primary Base Schema, and it 
will require a bit more work on all our parts to get there, but I 
really think it is doable. With OASIS supplying a specification 
template, the task of editing the spec is lessened, although, if Kurt 
gets this, I would still like to suggest that we vote him Invited 
Expert status to finish this task if he is willing and able, but 
otherwise, I am prepared to take it on if it works out that way.

One of the reasons for this is that October 17, 2002 marks our first 
anniversary as an OASIS TC, and I think we need more than a 
Requirements Document to put into our "work done" bucket. Another 
reason is that I am nearing the point where I will have a generic 
working male and female human model with which we can illustrate our 
work on the secondary schemata such as the Human Physical 
Characteristics Description Markup Language, and the VR-AI 
sublanguage, etc. My plan is to produce a working sample 
implementation for all secondary schemata, except a Secondary Base 
Schema that would fill the gap between the Primary Base Schema and 
the application-area-specific Secondary Schemata. That includes an 
RDF Glossary/Grammar if i can persuade Manos and Philip to take on 
that task as the operational key for connecting to and incorporating 
Topic Maps and for building a HumanML API.

These concerns in no way are meant to suggest that we not continue 
the semiotic experiment, which I suspect is going to wind up as the 
main driving wheel of the API in building an accurate, grounded and 
clearly defined model for communications systems, just that we 
complete the rest of our work in parallel.

As I said, I will be posting an agenda by about this time next week.

Ciao,
Rex

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