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Subject: RE: [huml] Convergent Standards Paper
Thanks Ranjeeth, Please do send me the website phdatastandards and I will add them to the list. I intend to make this list as comprehensive and immediately useful in real-world terms as we can make it. The Web Serivces for Remote Portlets Spec is entering the implementation phase (including the currently-lagging, emerging and established security standards) so our work will have all of its components, both those immediately deployed and those we can make plans to include in future portal configurations based on the most up-to-the-minute standards and resonable projections for those standards which will come into play in the next 12 to 24 months. I survived my midnight-to-9 am telecon schedule for the European face to face meetings, but just barely. I fell ill halfway through yesterday's second day-long session, and missed some important discussions which further restricted the limited scope of the markup subcommittee I chair to considerations for inclusion in v 1.1 for rules for markup fragments--rather than v 2.0 considerations for integrating a wider range of markup/display options. That means also that 1.1 will dominate the next full year. In effect, while it seems reasonable now, it will then be two years from the beginning of this TC until consideration for the technologies I most wanted to to explore will even be possible--and there are entrenched interests for whom, especially in this economy, exploring such technologies represent an expense with little ROI. However, the extra hours they pushed forward on Monday--midnight to noon effectively, made it possible for today's session to wrap up at lunch--their time. Since there was one of those peculiarly French or Italian one-day transportation strikes yesterday, the train schedules from Grenoble to Paris went wacko today, so it turned out for the best. However, as we, ourselves in HumamML, move toward a more global orientation, in all our work and the work of related TCs and organizations to which we form liaisons, we really need to make sure that our own avatar-enabled chat can evolve into a full-fledged web-services-capable portal. Small occurences, like fatigue, lack of sleep and gastrointestinal cramping can have unfavorable consequences that spread out into the future.In this case, my 3 am illness results in delaying any consideration of technologies beyond voiceXML and WML for inclusion in the WSRP Spec 1.1 and perhaps 2.0. We need to make sure such occurences don't dramatically alter what becomes possible for us. We can't prevent such ripples from other sources, but, if we can, we need to prevent such for us, especially if we intend to make HumanML a "communication equalizer" as Russell Ruggiero points out in his article. This will need to include ways to integrate both off-the-shelf webcast collaboration tools or built-in capabilities to share presentation files that record these kinds of sessions (and other conferencing events). We definitely need to reduce reliance on expensive face-to-face meetings So, sigh, it looks like I/we will have to adopt a "Field of Dreams" approach for other technologies, like X3D, and hope that if we build it... they will come... Or, if we can make it desireable and gain some momentum through good PR, we can build that integrated multimedia approach into a de facto standard--while keeping the licensing Royalty-Free and Open Source. Ciao, Rex At 9:18 AM -0400 5/14/03, Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga wrote: >Hi Rex, > >The paper looks like a very comprehensive resource. Three minor things I >noticed off the bat: > >1) I suggest referencing our HumanML work proper within the paper, unless >you have a specific reason not to, in addition to HPCDML, in order to >address additional characteristics including behavior and culture--they >relate to identity (behavior is of course the section you have at the end of >the paper). > >2) There is a minor grammatical error in the wording of your first sentence, >which you could probably rewrite. > >3) I have the website phdatastandards.info, which you may want to add to >your list (representing Public Health Standards). > >I'll CC: a final draft to the folks at NYAM. > >Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga > >-----Original Message----- > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] >Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 1:37 PM >To: huml@lists.oasis-open.org; youssa@rpi.edu; RRugg55041@aol.com; >rkthunga@interposting.com; clbullar@ingr.com; robnixon@execpc.com; >rkthunga@humanmarkup.org; cognite@zianet.com; james.landrum@ndsu.nodak.edu; >sressler@nist.gov >Cc: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org >Subject: [huml] Convergent Standards Paper > >Hi Folks, > >I've taken the study of convergent standards about as far as I can for now. > >As a reminder, this paper deals with standards that are directly >related to requirements for developing a comprehensive and >self-consistent Human Physical Characteristics Description Markup >Language and standards that are both directly and indirectly related >to individual name, identity, medical and address data considerations >for Emergency Management Technical Committee purposes. > >I have attached the Word .doc file. I can also send a plain text to >anyone who needs it. > >Ciao, >Rex >-- >Rex Brooks >GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth >W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com >Email: rexb@starbourne.com >Tel: 510-849-2309 >Fax: By Request -- Rex Brooks GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com Email: rexb@starbourne.com Tel: 510-849-2309 Fax: By Request
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