[humanmarkup] Unanimous Final Vote on Primary Base Schema

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Greetings Karl, Everyoone,

The unanimous opinion of the eligible voting members of the OASIS 
HumanMarkup Technical Committee is to count only the votes of 
officially eligible members from our unofficial vote on submitting 
The Human Markup Language Primary Base XML Schema 1.0, filename: 
huml-primary-base-1.0.xsd (attached to this message) to OASIS as a 
Techical Committee Specification ready for official announcement and 
the initial 30-day Public Comment period.

That makes the vote of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee 
unanimous in favor of approving this schema as an OASIS HumanMarkup 
Technical Committee specification for this stage of the OASIS 
approval process.

The Microsoft Word .doc and the. html files are currently under 
review for a second  round of proofreading. This round will correct 
only typographical and grammatical errors, and will be uploaded and 
in place with the HumanMarkup TC webpage also correctly updated to 
make those versions publicly available for online display or 
downloading on Monday, November 11, 2002.

If there is a preferred method for collecting public comment other 
than through the humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org mailing 
list, please advise us. Otherwise we will conduct our public comment 
review through that list.

What I will do is to repost specific comments that qualify as raising 
specific discussion issues rather than simply stating a broad opinion 
about the specification. I will give these issues a standard subject 
line name and number to track discussion. This will include an 
initial set of issues which I will post at the time the public 
announcements are released.

I will also provide to the mailing lists an ongoing-updated Microsoft 
Excel document that will track the progress of these issues from open 
to tentative resolution to resolution.

Please advise us if this submission is acceptable and if this 
procedure is likewise acceptable.

I would also like to remind the group and inform Karl of the process 
by which we developed this specification.

We approved a working draft of our Requirements Document March, 31, 
2002, and used it as the criteria for assembling our first draft of 
our first specifcation, The Human Markup Language Primary Base XML 
Schema 1.0.

Between then and the May 2002 monthly meeting we discussed how to 
proceed and decided that we would conduct an item by item discussion 
of all components in the existing primary base schema strawman 
toolkit developed in phase 0 before we joined OASIS.

We decided we would use this process to decide if we needed the 
elements and attributes contained in that document, and when our 
discussions uncovered areas that needed new elements and attributes 
we would add them to a list to be discussed after proceeding through 
that initial list.

By keeping the discussions of those items contained within a common 
subject line thread, we were able to collect together our discussions 
of each item once that initial pass through the document was 
concluded and work begun on assembling the current schema 
specification document. We used those assembled discussions as the 
basis for our final review while the schema was assembled.

We conducted this process from May to October 2002, assembled the 
document before you and conducted a final review of the collected 
discussions. We met our target date of October 31, 2002 for approving 
this specification, but our inclusion of votes by invited experts 
needed to be revised because they are ineligible. That revision, 
which stipulates removing those votes from the record, was approved 
unanimously as of November 6, 2002, resulting in unanimous approval 
for this specification as of November 7, 2002.

If this is acceptable we will use the date November 7, 2002 as the 
date of record for the approval of this specification by the OASIS 
HumanMarkup Technical Committee, and if OASIS accepts this 
submission, we will use the date of November 11, 2002 as the 
effective date beginning the 30-day Public Comment period.

Thanks to everyone for your forebearance during the recent 
difficulties, and please accept my sincere appreciation to all who 
have made this work possible.

Warm Regards,
Rex Brooks

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