OIC TC 2013-06-26 Meeting Minutes

[Hanssens Bart <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>]

OIC COORDINATION CALL
Date:  Wednesday 26 June 2013
Time:  13:30 - 14:15 UTC

1. LOGISTICS

The chat room: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/oic
(doesn't count for attendance) 
 
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 2/2 voting members present did satisfy the 2/2 quorum requirement for start of the meeting. 

    MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE
    * Bart Hanssens, Fedict (Chair)
    + Andreas Guelzow, Individual
    * Dennis Hamilton, Individual
    + Chris Rae, Microsoft

    [* = Voting Member at start of meeting (2)
     + = becoming Voting Member at conclusion of meeting (2)
     = = Persistent Non-Voting Member (0)]
 
    VOTING MEMBERS ABSENT

    [* = Voting Member at start and end of meeting (0)
     - = Voting Member becoming non-voting Member at end of meeting (0)
     = = Persistent Non-Voting Member (0)
     ! = Voting Member on leave-of-absence through the specified date (0)]

	  
1.2 PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES

Bart notes that the subject in the mail was wrong: the year should of course be 2013 instead of 2012.
Other than that, there are no comments on the previous meeting minutes, so they are accepted.


1.3 TODAY'S AGENDA

The agenda:
- https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201306/msg00006.html


2. STATUS OF ACTION ITEMS

  #0015 Template Scenarios.  Work in progress.
  #0041 Battery of ODF 1.2 Assessment Documents.  No report.
  #0044 Split up Advisory 00002.  Work in progress.
  #0047 Confirmation of Advisory 00008 test documents. Work in Progress.

Bart mention that Italy has created an open source, but implementation specific and maybe country-specific, 
plug-in for adding XAdES signatures to ODF documents.

Dennis wants to know what the license is, Bart assumes it will be EUPL (= European GPL-like license)

Bart will send a link to the mailing list

  #0051 Check advisory 00005. Work in progress.


3. DELIVERABLES / TEST CASES

3.1 Second "State of Interoperability" Report

Bart invites the members to read the last draft, he thinks that this version is good enough to  become a
Committee Note Draft.
- https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=49180&wg_abbrev=oic

Dennis will try to review the document before the next conference call.


3.2 Other Interop Advisories

No new advisories and no updates


4. ROUND TABLE

4.1 Report from ISO JTC1 SC 34 meetings

Dennis attended several WG meetings.

WG1 is working on a profile for the ZIP format.
On a related note, the EPUB3 container format uses an URN (in OASIS's namespace) that's never been defined.

WG4 is discussing signatures, including XAdES.
Interestingly, OOXML struggles with the same challenges as ODF (e.g. handling relative links in packages)

In WG5, China proposed a new work item on defining an abstract document model,
describing general features that are present in different document formats (e.g. footnote)
This could be a path to interoperability, even though there are potentially thousands of "features".


4.2 Future of the OIC TC

Dennis wonders about the future of the OIC TC.

Andreas points out that interoperability issues like units in angle of rotation were raised within the ODF TC,
rather than in the OIC TC.

Chris notes that the major vendors / implementers are part of - and active in- the ODF TC.
He wants to know if a TC could go into "sleep mode" until its members have time to be more actively involved.

Dennis explains that this is not possible per OASIS policy, requiring regular meetings and progress.

Bart is not very optimistic about the progress that can be made, given the limited resources available.
He suggest to get the 2nd Status of Interop out of the door and start thinking about closing down the OIC TC.
No-one really objects, so that might be way to go. To be discussed.


5. FUTURE MEETING PLANNING

The next call will be on Wednesday July 10th, starting at 13:30 UTC.