RE: [huml] Mediation SC: draft charter

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Title: RE: [huml] Mediation SC: draft charter

Thanks Ranjeeth,

I will take your advice and most of your restructuring in the next version along with placing

"For  individuals, communities and organizations with a vested interest in mitigating conflict. "

at the start for conspicuous prominence as the short form of the Mission Statement. I will let it stew a bit and then submit an amended version soon for discussion in email in advance of our next meeting on the 24th.

Ciao,

Rex

At 11:57 AM -0500 3/10/04, Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga wrote:

> I thought the updates are very nice Rex,
> and addresses the Mediation effort
> from a variety of different perspective, conceptual and detailed. 
> Very cool
> to see.  You framed the effort around a set of HMML
> specifications, which
> gives focus to the effort.
>
>  
>
> The main input I have is that we separate the technical examples and
> details
> from the general mission statement description and conceptual
> framework of
> the SC.  I had a couple of other minor comments (see the NOTES
> section at
> the end of my email), but looks very good overall. 
>
>  
>
> Although it is still a "Technical SubCommittee" I am looking
> at it from the
> eyes of the non-profit community I am more part of.  Of course,
> this is
> slightly different from the government, educational, or corporate
> community's eyes.
>
>  
>
> We can go back and forth a bit till our next meeting.
>
>  
>
> MISSION STATEMENT
>
> -----
>
> The Mediation Subcommittee of the HumanMarkup Technical Committee is
> tasked
> to produce a Human Mediation Markup Language, HMML. To do this,
> the
> subcommittee will gather resources, identify and incorporate
> specific
> existing vocabularies that represent established means for mediation. 
> This
> will include contributions to the overall Human Markup Language.
>
>  
>
> Subsequently, this subcommittee will support the ongoing development
> of
> significant additions or deletions to the Primary and Secondary Base
> Human
> Markup Language modules, and incorporations of or from other
> standards, to
> ensure that these specifications can be used interoperably to
> facilitate the
> effort of resolving conflicts in various manners.
>
>  
>
> Beyond incorporating vocabularies in their proper, societal
> self-determined
> contexts, it is considered a requirement to create a standard language
> for
> human preferences and interests, cultural and ethnic
> self-identification,
> general self-description for temperament and self-description for
> thresholds
> for subjective evaluations.
>
>  
>
> Assisting successful collaboration efforts with other standards
> organizations, working groups, technical committees, businesses
> and
> governmental agencies by using other standards in combination with
> HMML is
> an important component of our mission. This may include encouraging
> sample
> implementation projects and efforts aimed at improving conditions
> throughout
> the human world where mediation efforts can contribute to such
> improvements
> or where improvements are necessary to bring about the conditions
> necessary
> to allow mediation to serve the purpose of mitigating conflict
> and/or
> encouraging cooperation or collaboration.
>
>  
>
>  
>
> PARTS TO BE PLACED WITHIN EXAMPLES / SCOPE SECTION
>
> -----------
>
>  
>
> "formal legal discourse and less formal, but well recognized
> social contexts
> that can be legally ratified or notarized"
>
>  
>
> "allow parties to air their positions with an improved likelihood
> of being
> accurately understood"
>
>  
>
> "establish relationships between organizations with a vested
> interest in
> mitigating conflict. "
>
>
>
> "accepting unfamiliar religious practices in public as a more
> conflict-arousing instance."
>
>
>
> "determining 'tolerance for delay in transaction before
> cancellation of
> transaction' that allows for a greater degree of accommodation in
> normal
> human social processes such as purchasing decisions for groceries
> versus
> purchasing decisions for automobiles" (I had a tough time with
> this
> one...maybe an example more reflective of mediation, or another
> explanation...I liked the concept much, although it may be too
> specific
> early on?)
>
>  
>
> NOTES:
>
> ------
>
> -Not everyone reading this will know what the Secondary Base HumanML
> refers
> to, so I thought it best we introduce it later in the description.
>
>  
>
> -I eliminated "satisfactory to most, if not all participants."
> (results are
> not necessary satisfactory to "most" parties either)
>
>
>
> -I eliminated "legal" from the mission statement (I don't
> think we should
> necessarily tie ourselves in with legal vocabulary, although there
> are
> valuable uses within that field as you mention).
>
>  
>
> -I extracted some details into a different section (above).
>
>  
>
>  
>
> -----
>
> Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
>
>
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