RE: unanswered query on comment list

[<bryan.s.schnabel@tektronix.com>]

Hi Andrzej,

Thank you for fielding this question. As I said, given that my expertise and experience are not strong on the xml:tm side, I did not feel I was the best TC member to answer this. Your explanation is pretty clear to me.

Thanks,

Bryan

________________________________________
From: Andrzej Zydron [azydron@xml-intl.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 4:07 AM
To: Schnabel, Bryan S
Cc: oaxal@lists.oasis-open.org; joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com
Subject: Re: unanswered query on comment  list

Hi Bryan,

Thank you for your email. The question in the link regarding the
DocZone's claim to be the reference implementation is not quite
accurate. They are to the best of my knowledge a reference
implementation of the proposed OAXAL level 1 conformant Reference
Architecture.

OAXAL is an OASIS TC that is bound by the rules and regulations of the
TC and conforms to the OASIS IP policy. All procedural rules required by
OASIS have been adhered to at all times and all decisions have been
subjected to committee vote. OAXAL as an OASIS reference architecture
proposal is open to all vendors to implement.

The fact that a company has chosen to implement a proposed standard in
no way compromises the fact that it is vendor agnostic. If, for
instance, a company were do declare that it has a reference
implementation of XLIFF 2.0, would this in any way mean that XLIFF 2.0
is not vendor agnostic? There are I believe already other OAXAL
implementations in existence.

OAXAL is entirely composed of Open Standards and I cannot see how an
implementation of OAXAL Level 1 could be anything but vendor agnostic.

xml:tm and/or W3C ITS is not mandated in certain implementations of
OAXAL according to the Conformance Guidelines
(http://wiki.oasis-open.org/oaxal/FrontPage#ConformanceCategories). This
means in fact that those aspects of the workflow concerning segmentation
and extraction of text from an XML document can be done using vendor
specific techniques. The freedom to implement these is acknowledged
through the Conformance Categories. This was arrived at through our
democratic TC process under OASIS rules.

Best Regards,

AZ


On 10/12/2009 19:11, bryan.s.schnabel@tektronix.com wrote:
>
> Hi Andrzej,
>
> Rodolfo asked JoAnn and I to seek an answer to the not-yet-addressed
> query he posted on the comment list:
>
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oaxal-comment/200909/msg00000.html
>
> I will summarize the points he made to JoAnn and me.
>
> He has indicated that since xml:tm is claimed as required to achieve
> full compliance, and in his opinion xml:tm is not necessary, and the
> vendor mentioned in his question is claimed to be OAXAL's reference
> implementation, he seeks a compelling explanation to indicate that
> OAXAL is indeed vendor agnostic.
>
> I could not address his concerns because I do not have broad knowledge
> of, or experience with, xml:tm. This seems to better fit your expertise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bryan
>

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