Re: [office-collab] WD04 comments [3 Thorsten]

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <andreas.guelzow@concordia.ab.ca>]

On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:37 -0700, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> The proposal is to solicit further review of the only two proposals we
> have in front of us.  Despite 12 months time for anyone else to bring
> forward an additional proposal, this is what we have now.  If you or
> anyone else has an additional proposal to make, I'm sure we'd all love
> to receive it, discuss it, and subject it to the same level of
> scrutiny that the existing two proposals have had.  Having more
> choices is a good thing. 
> 
> Although I am not abandoning all hope that there is a 3rd proposal,
> better than the two we have, and one that we'd all agree on, the fact
> that no such proposal has emerged, not even in outline, after a year
> of discussion, makes me less confident that this is likely. 
> 
> Of course, I'd love to be proven wrong here. 
> 

For most of the changes applied to ODF over the last years while I was a
TC member, we usually had some proposals that were then modified in an
attempt to create an optimal solution. Work in this collaboration
subcommittee has happened quite differently. It was primarily an issue
of assessing two existing proposals without any attempt of incorporating
the strengths of both into a better solution. In fact any new proposals
o attempts on compromises were actively discouraged. See
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-collab/email/archives/201109/msg00023.html

The whole idea that only mostly complete proposals will be considered
seems counter to a collaborative effort. 

Andreas
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Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA
Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta