[humanmarkup] Re: Unanimous Final Vote on Primary Base Schema

[Karl Best <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Rex:

Good news. Thanks for the taking care of the voting.

I suggest that the way to start the public review is for you to write a 
version of this same message that you give to me to send out to the 
OASIS membership and any maillists you think may be applicable.

The process for the public review is as follows 
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml#approval_spec)

"Before the TC can submit its Committee Specification to OASIS 
membership for review and approval as an OASIS Standard, the TC must 
conduct a public review of the work. The decision by the TC to submit 
the work for review requires a majority vote. The review should be 
publicized on applicable OASIS mail lists and other public mail lists. 
Review must take place for a minimum of 30 days, during which time no 
changes may be made to the document. Comments must be collected via the 
TC's public comment list. The TC must record the comments received as 
well as the resolution of those comments. The TC may conduct any number 
of additional review cycles (i.e. collecting comments, making edits to 
the specification, sending out a revised version for review again, etc.) 
before deciding that the review is complete. After the conclusion of the 
review and final changes to the document, the TC must re-approve the 
work as a Committee Specification before submitting it to OASIS."

The spec docs should reside on the TC web page, and your message should 
provide the URLs for them; you don't want to attach them to a mass 
mailing. You should include information about the spec and its purpose, 
as well as the means for the public to submit comments -- and yes, this 
should be via the comment list so that everything will be publlicly 
archived and accountable. I like the idea of your keeping a spreadshseet 
on the TC web page so everyone can see the tracking and disposition of 
the comments.

In other words, keep everything on the TC page, but reference these docs 
in the call for review.

Once you get this to me I can send it out and the 30 day review can start.

-Karl



Rex Brooks wrote:
> 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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