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Subject: [humanmarkup] Draft Announcement
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: humanmarkup@lists.oasis-open.org, cognite@zianet.com, clbullar@ingr.com,kurt@kurtcagle.net, mbatsis@netsmart.gr
- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 06:05:29 -0800
Title: Draft Announcement
Hi Everyone,
Here is the generic announcement I have drafted. Comments are
welcome. I have started with a nearly verbatim copy of Karl Best's
announcement yesterday of the XACML 1.0 Committee Specification. I go
on from there to attempt to pull together the briefest, yet fullest
explanation I could of what our spec is and what it is meant to do and
to be. I wanted to be specific enough in the area of supplying ideas
of how it can be used so that people get the idea that it is a
practical tool. At the same time, I wanted to express clearly that it
is only the foundation of things to come. I would appreciate having
your comments today if possible since I want to send it on the Karl
and Carol tomorrow.
However, tomorrow is a national holiday, so I don't know if OASIS
staff will be working. If they are, then I want the announcement to go
out Tuesday. If not, then I guess it will have to be Wednesday.
Please note: I will be compiling a list of issues that have
already been raised, using the same mailing list procedure we used to
discuss our spec item-by-item except that I will also be building a
more formal list as an Excel Document that will list issues by number
and subject-line thread that moves them from open to tentative
resolution to resolved to obsolete. (This will also eventually form
the basis for our errata page) Simultaneously I will do all of the
corrections we have done in the explanatory text that needs to be
reflected in the schema code document. I need to do that now and
archive it because my XML SPY trial period will run out before we are
ready to make our final adjustments. From there I will either use a
different editor (there is one from TIBCO which is about on par with
XML SPY, unless the folks who distribute SPY can be persuaded to
donate a copy--not likely if my experience is valid, but you never
know.
You will be getting a list in a few hours of the venues to which
I believe we should send out our announcement for public comment. I
will be asking for suggestions in that area, too, so I wanted to give
you an alert about it.
I will also be including the one current opportunity we have
through OASIS to begin publicizing this effort more widely, through a
CNET event in San Francisco in December. If we can qualify for that,
the timing would be good, as it is also good to be part of a group of
OASIS TC specifications and standrds that are being released all at
once. I really have no idea how this has happened, but there we are,
right in the middle of it. I guess we have to get lucky once in a
while. We have other efforts coming up in the new year to present
scholarly papers to support our work.
Time to rock and roll...
The chair and vice-chair of the OASIS
HumanMarkup Technical Committee are pleased to announce that the
Technical Committee has voted unanimously to approve its
huml-primary-base-1.0 document as a Committee Specification.
The HumanMarkup TC also voted to begin the process of moving the
specification to an OASIS Standard by initiating a 30-day public
review period with respect to the huml-primary-base-1.0 Committee
Specification, in accordance with Section 2 of the OASIS Technical
Committee Process document
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml).
The public review period extends from
Tuesday, November 12, 2002, until
Thursday, December 12, 2002 (inclusive).
The specification and accompanying schema document may be found at
Human Markup Language Primary Base Specification 1.0
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/schema/huml-primary-base-1.0.xsd
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/documents/HM.Primary-Base-Spec-1.0.doc
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/documents/HM.Primary-Base-Spec-1.0.html
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/documents/HM.Primary-Base-Spec-1.0.pdf
or from the HumanMarkup Web site at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup
Comments are welcome and encouraged from all interested parties.
Comments should be submitted to the humanmarkup comment list at
humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org.
(OASIS comment lists no longer require subscription, but you will be
required by the mail server to return a token to confirm your
message.)
The foregoing is the same announcement
message posted to OASIS mailing lists by Karl Best, title, amended
only to change the announcing entity to the Technical Committee chair
and vice-chair.
Following is a brief explanation of what this specification is
intended to provide to the xml community; the wider, largely
web-based, computing communities of our world and the global human
community.
Human Markup is a human-readable and machine-readable computer
language based on XML.
Human Markup was created to fill the need for a standard description
of uniquely human characteristics, concerns and issues.
Human Markup can be used in digital information systems filling the
need to:
* clarify human communication in digital
information systems;
* bring human perspectives,
characteristics, qualities and values into information technology;
* provide greater options for expressing human
ideas, emotions and art; and
* identify and focus
attention on uniquely human concerns.
The reason why the current time is appropriate for introducing and
promoting HumanML, (the shorthand term for the language), is
that:
* the issues of online security, verifying and
safeguarding personal identity information;
* the emergence of web services for delivering
information across the spectrum of human economic and social systems;
and,
* more general
concerns about unsolicited email (so-called spam) and other abuses of
personal human information, are all coming to to the fore in public
awareness.
This sets the stage for introducing a language that can play a part in
addressing these issues and which can provide a much greater
application to bringing human concerns into information technology in
a way allows for improving communication and protects human values in
the realm of machine technologies that are developing faster than our
abilities to absorb and adapt.
The Human Markup Language Primary Base Specification 1.0 is the
fundamental vocabulary for building this language. While we will be
providing sample implementations of what even this small beginning is
capable of performing, it is not intended on its own to be
application-specific. It represents the foundation of a structure
which will be capable of supporting a very wide range of tasks which
are aimed at improving the clarity and accuracy of the process of
human communication in this digital information age.
Beyond supplying additional depth of information about individuals
which can be used to enhance the personalizations of web services and
customized software that can learn about a user's evolving
preferences, HumanML will provide the basis for a consistent
representation of human behavior in virtual reality applications.
It will also provide the basis for representing immediate personal
emotional reactions in a more standard and useful way than the simple
emoticons such as we see employed in Instant Messenging.
HumanML will also be capable of providing
enhancements to more formal communication tasks such as real-time
conference response, diplomacy and social services. Educational tasks
will also be aided by careful application of HumanML.
It is, as you can see, a very wide-ranging
set of applications.
Ciao,
Rex
--
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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