OIC TC 2012-06-13 Meeting Minutes Call Notes

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

OIC COORDINATION CALL
Date:  Wednesday 13 June 2012
Time:  13:30 - 13:55 UT
 
1. LOGISTICS
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The chat room: <http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/oic>
(doesn't count for attendance) 
 
The call-in numbers: 
 <https://www.teleconference.att.com/servlet/glbAccess?process=1&accessCode=84367726&accessNumber=2158616239>
 
Meeting agendas also provide the pass codes and the commonly-used call-in numbers
<https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201206/msg00002.html>

The action items (log-in required):
<http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/oic/members/action_items.php> 
 
 
1.1 ROLL CALL AND QUORUM CHECK

The 4/5 voting members present satisfied the 3/5 quorum requirement for start of the meeting. 

    MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE
    * Bart Hanssens, Fedict (Chair)
    * Andreas Guelzow, Individual
    * Dennis Hamilton, Individual (Secretary)
    *  Louis Suarez-Potts, Individual

      [* = Voting Member at start of meeting (4)
       + = becoming Voting Member at conclusion of meeting (0)
       = = Persistent Non-Voting Member (0)]
 
    MEMBERS ABSENT
      Charles Schulz, Ars Aperta
      Peter Junge, Beijing Sursen International
      Alex Wang, Beijing Sursen International 
      Jeremy Allison, Google Inc.
      Don Harbison, IBM
    - Mingfei Jia, IBM
      Rob Weir, IBM
      Svante Schubert, Individual
      Cherie Ekholm, Microsoft
    ! John Haug, Microsoft [leave of absence through 2012-07-15]
      Doug Mahugh, Microsoft
      Eric Patterson, Microsoft
      Kazmer Koleszar, MultiRacio
      Péter Rakyta, MultiRacio
      Alan Clark, Novell
      Bernd Eilers, Oracle Corporation
      Andrew Rist, Oracle Corporation
      Tom Rabon, Red Hat
      Jerry Smith, US Department of Defense

      [* = Voting Member at start and end of meeting (0)
       - = Voting Member becoming non-voting Member at end of meeting (1)
       = = Persistent Non-Voting Member (0)
       ! = Voting Member on leave-of-absence through the specified date
         ]
 
1.2 PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES (2012-05-16), approved without objection
<https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201205/msg00011.html>



1.3 TODAY'S AGENDA, approved without modification (Louis to cover an item of his in the roundtable)
<https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201206/msg00002.html>
 
2. STATUS OF ACTION ITEMS
  #0015 Template Scenarios.  No progress
  #0041 Battery of ODF 1.2 Assessment Documents.  No report.
  #0044 Split up Advisory 00002.  In progress.
  #0046 Update Advisory 00007.  Pending
  #0047 Confirmation of Advisory 00008 test documents.  There is code on digital signatures that has been checked in at the ODF Toolkit.  To determine its status and possible use, it might be best to follow the lists on the Apache ODF Toolkit project.  [Ed. Note: See <http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/>.] 
  #0048 CLOSED: SVN move from HTTP to HTTPS. This worked smoothly.  The http scheme still works so existing deep links are fine.  Commits to the SVN do require retargeting to the https scheme URLs.

   
3. DELIVERABLES / TEST CASES

There was discussion of having the next Plugfest as the due date for these deliverables.  Bart reports that the Document Foundation is interest in hosting the next one in mid-October.

September 30, 2012 is suggested as the working deadline for anything that the OIC TC would make available.


3.1 Second "State of Interoperability" Report

Charter says this is needed and it is important to make a start.  It is recommended that TC members commence producing some sort of markup that could be consolidated by an editor. 


3.3 Interop Advisories

#00008 on Digital Signature Namespace awaits confirmation of the test documents.
<https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/oic/Advisories/00008-DSig_Namespaces/trunk/description.html>
The advisory is otherwise complete.  The trick with the test documents is that they are intended to be valid cases that current products fail with.  What's missing is a demonstrable confirmation that they actually are valid cases and will work with a correct consumer.  See the Action Item #0047 note.

#00009 on Protection-Key Safety is essentially complete.
<https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/oic/Advisories/00009-ProtectionKeySafety/trunk/description.html>
It is tied to an ODF TC issue that provides more.  It is time for wide review of this draft.


4. ROUND TABLE

Louis requested, for a future agenda, the idea of folding the ODF Adoption TC into the OIC TC, or folding it into a subset of the OIC TC.  There has been a sharp drop-off of the Adoption TC activity and it appears that the TC cannot continue on its own.  While there is some charter overlap, the evangelism of user and community adoption is rather outside of the OIC TC Charter.  Considerations were kicked around and Louis said this would be raised at the ODF TC also.  There was also a question whether or not the xml.org section for support of ODF might not be a better forum, if that can be sustained better.

With regard to future Plugfests, the next one is under discussion.  Related events that might be in conjunction with a Plugfest are the LibreOffice 2012 Conference in Berlin, 2012 October 16-19 <http://conference.libreoffice.org/>, [added: and a track at ApacheCon 2012 Europe in Sinsheim (near Heidelberg), 2012 November 5-9 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/OpenOffice+Conference+2012>.]


5. FUTURE MEETING PLANNING

The next call is 2012-06-27.



Respectfully submitted,

 - Dennis E. Hamilton