Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 16-Aug-04

[Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>]

MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
AUGUST, THE 16TH, 2004, 3PM GMT – 4:00PM GMT

Attendees
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Doug Alberg <doug.alberg@boeing.com>, Boeing
Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
Patrick Durusau <Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org>,
      Society of Biblical Literature
Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
Tom Magliery <tom.magliery@blastradius.com>, Blast Readius
Daniel Vogelheim <daniel.vogelheim@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
Lars Oppermann <lars.oppermann@sun.com>,
      Sun Microsystems (prospective member)


Acceptance of Minutes of the August, the 16th meeting
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- The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.


Action Items
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- David Faure: look into aligning image filter proposal with SVG, and 
rework proposal if possible
   - in progress


TC membership
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Lars Oppermann joined the TC as a prospective member.


File Name Extensions and MIME types
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The TC continued its discussions regarding MIME types and extensions. 
The TC identified the following issues:
- The registration authority is IANA and not the TC. The Open Office 
specification therefor can only contain a list of MIME types that are 
registered at the time the specification is published.
- How do we avoid that different vendors register multiple open office 
related MIME types/extensions for the same purpose?
- How can we ensure that readers of the specification understand that 
they can register their own MIME types?
- How can we ensure that the Open Office TC notices if new open office 
related MIME types get registered.

While there seems to be no solution that addresses all these issues, the 
TC agreed to
- add a link to the registration procedure described RFC2048 to the 
specification;
- move the list of MIME types into an non normative appendix;
- state in the specification that this list of MIME types only a 
snapshot of what is registered at the time the specification is 
published (or contains the MIME types the TC intends to register 
itself), but that the full list is available following the instructions 
described in RFC2048 only.

The TC further agreed to add the non-basic MIME types/extensions 
described in 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200408/msg00004.html to the 
list of MIME types it intents to register.


Margin
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The TC unanimously agreed to add the fo:margin property to the 
specification as proposed in 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200408/msg00010.html.


Order of style elements
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As proposed in 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200408/msg00011.html, the TC 
unanimously agreed that the various style elements may occur in any 
order within the <office:styles> and <office:automatic-styles> elements.


New Action Items
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none


Michael Brauer

OASIS Open Office XML format TC chair