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Subject: [humanmarkup] Re: Unanimous Final Vote on Primary Base Schema
Thanks Karl, This is clear. Most likely the announcement can go out Monday. Regards, Rex At 8:55 AM -0500 11/7/02, Karl Best wrote: >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 > > >-- >================================================================= >Karl F. Best >Vice President, OASIS >+1 978.667.5115 x206 >karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org -- Rex Brooks Starbourne Communications Design 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309 http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com
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