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Subject: Public Comment


Comment from: jharrop@gmail.com

Dan, Dave, Peter, Zoran, Rolly, Dr Leff

I've read the minutes of recent TC calls to get up to speed on what is going on, and thought I'd share my thoughts for what they are worth.

I do not think it is a good idea to adopt as a standard, a structural schema which is not certain to have widespread market traction (compare WordML, or a subset of XHTML 2).

Are there clear business benefits for introducing a new schema?  Do we really need it?

I think the world has moved on: We don't need to propose a solution to the structural markup problem since its now obvious that (most?) contract authors are going to continue  to use Word for the foreseeable future.  And with the change in default file formats in the next version, increasingly use it to create WordML.

If there is any doubt, I think it would be prudent to get a feel for some minimum level of likely vendor support for the proposed eContracts approach before promulgating a standard.  

With XHTML 2 or WordML, we would have been leveraging existing communities and tools, not to mention well understood ways of marking up semantics.

And its my own feeling that our real contribution would lie in semantics (given that document automation is out of scope, and single source publishing has been solved elsewhere and is not our focus).

On the semantic front, its interesting to see the work being done at www.microformats.org, including to mark up links to licence agreements.  The idea of making a series of useful incremental contributions to available semantic markup is quite attractive.  And much lower risk and more accessible than a monolithic specification.

cheers,

Jason





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