Notes from 14 December 2020

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

The notes for the 14 December 2020 meeting of the ODF TC follow.

Hope everyone is at the start of a great week and planning on being safe
and sound over the holidays!

Patrick

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Patrick: Quorum - yes!
Patrick: Agenda - Add what happens when 3rd statement of use arrives?
insert after 5
Patrick: modified agenda - approved by consent
Patrick: Minutes of December 7th - approved by consent
Patrick: item 4 - just notice
Patrick: item 5 currently have two statements of use for ODF 1.3
Patrick: Between 5 and 6, what procedure when 3rd statement of use arrives
Alfred Hellstern: My PCÂ just bluescreened, Ill dial back in as soon as
I can
Patrick: After the approval of a Committee Specification, and after
three Statements of Use referencing the Committee Specification have
been presented to the TC, a TC may resolve by Special Majority Vote to
submit the Committee Specification as a candidate for OASIS Standard. At
least one of the Statements of Use must come from an OASIS
Organizational Member. The TC may decide to withdraw the submission, by
Special Majority Vote, at any time until the final approval. The chair
shall submit the request for the Special Majority Vote using the request
mechanism designated by the OASIS TC Administrator.After the approval of
a Committee Specification, and after three Statements of Use referencing
the Committee Specification have been presented to the TC, a TC may
resolve by Special Majority Vote to submit the Committee Specification
as a candidate for OASIS Standard. At least one of the Statements of Use
must come from an OASIS Organizational Member. The TC may decide to
withdraw the submission, by Special Majority Vote, at any time until the
final approval. The chair shall submit the request for the Special
Majority Vote using the request mechanism designated by the OASIS TC
Administrator.
Patrick:
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process-2017-05-26/#OASISstandard
Patrick: A public review of the Committee Specification shall be
announced by the TC Administrator to the OASIS Membership list and
optionally on other public mail lists. The public review shall remain
open a minimum of 60 days.
Michael Stahl:
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/oasis-defined-terms-2018-05-22/#dStatementUse
:Â A Statement of Use submitted to the TC or PGB must be approved by TC
Resolution or PGB action as an acceptable Statement of Use with respect
to the Specification.
Patrick: TC must accept the statements of use by majority vote
Patrick: Then - vote on requesting the special majority vote
Patrick: then: ask the TC Admin for special majority vote on submission
as OASIS standard
Patrick: TCs may conduct electronic ballots. An electronic ballot may be
conducted during a meeting using any tool available to the TC including
email and the results must be recorded in the minutes. Electronic
ballots outside of a meeting shall be made either by using the TCs
general mail list or the publicly archived electronic voting
functionality provided by OASIS and must remain open for a minimum of 7
days.TCs may conduct electronic ballots.
Francis Cave: OK with the approach.
Regina Henschel: Point 38: OASIS TC Administrator is the person or
persons representing OASIS in administrative matters relating to
Technical Committees. All official communications must be sent to
tc-admin@oasis-open.org.
Patrick: Add voting on the Statements of Use - from Document Foundation
- and CIB Labs -?
Patrick: Alfred - Document Foundation - doesn't record the version
number in its statement of use -
Michael Stahl: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.0#ODF_1.3
Patrick: Michael says - version 7+ both consumes and produces ODF 1.3 -
Patrick: Andreas - shouldn't conformance point to consumer and producer
clauses
Patrick: Alfred - can you be one of the 3? Not all three?
Patrick: Michael - could have an a producers that doesn't consume
Patrick: Alfred - can have 3 consumers and no producers with statements
of use
Patrick: Francis - statement of use - up to a TC to decide if a
statement of use is satisfactory - doesn't have to be the whole standard
- some of its conformance clauses
Patrick: Andreas - needs to be only one or more statement of types
Patrick: types of documents
Patrick: Editors need to draft a response on statements of use and
submit with links to the reference version if possible - Francis,
Patrick, Svante, Michael
Patrick: passed by consent
Patrick: Andreas - large group evaluator - could have listed medium and
small group evaluator -
Patrick: Andreas - open document evaluator -
Patrick: Andreas - part 4. - open formula evaluator
Patrick: Francis - at least one that conforms to opendocument producer
and one that conforms to opendocument consumer -
Patrick: Francis - please tell us which of the document categories you
conform to for production and consumption
Patrick: Francis - conform as a producer for the following document
types - and conform as a consumer for those and perhaps other document types
Patrick: Michael - act as a producer and consumer for the following
document types
Patrick: Need new calendar invite for TC meetings

-- 
Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)

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