Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] Question on references

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Shawn <sgrover@open2space.com> wrote on 06/10/2008
01:49:22 PM:

> Rob, in an earlier thread you made some references to ODF 1.0 with
> regards to conformity and/or interoperability.  I'm just curious
why 
> version 1.0 would be referenced, and not 1.1 or 1.2.  Both 1.0
and 1.1 
> are available via the Oasis site 
> (http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php),
but I don't see 1.2 there 
> (yet) - is it not approved yet?.  So it would seem to me that
working 
> with 1.1 at least makes the most sense.  Or are we looking at
IIC for 
> ALL versions of ODF?  This can help address the scope issue we
need to 
> define.


I think this was just because I had the ODF 1.0 text
in front of me.  I've been working on ODF 1.0 draft errata recently.

I don't think we want to restrict ourselves in the
proposed TC charter to any specific version of ODF.  I think the TC
can decide itself, based on its participating members, which is the most
relevant version to tackle initially.  My guess is it would be ODF
1.1 or ODF 1.2 (now in draft).  Most (but not all) vendors are targeting
ODF 1.1 today. 

In any case, the progression from ODF 1.0 to ODF 1.1
to ODF 1.2 is mainly one of functional augmentation.  So there is
going to be a huge amount of overlap.  I'd hope that test cases (and
test requirements before that) would be annotated with what versions of
the standard it applies to.  We want to maximize reuse.

-Rob