Regrep Paris meeting minutes

[Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net>]

OASIS Regrep TC
Paris Meeting, Thursday 15 June 2000

attending:

Nagwa Abdelghfour, Sun
Terry Allen, Commerce One, chairman
Lisa Carnahan, NIST
Robin Cover, ISOGEN
Una Kearns, Documentum
Jamie Walker, Boeing
Priscilla Walmsley, XMLSolutions
Yutaka Yoshida, Sun


attending as guests:

Megan MacMillan, Solista
 * wants to join committee; this is a task for new chair

Eamonn Neylon, Informata.com
 * wants to join committee; this is a task for new chair

Yen-Chiun Kuo and Eho-Cheng (Frank) Lo, NIIEPA - National Information
  Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association (Taiwan)
 * it wasn't clear, but very likely want to join committee; this is a task 
   for new chair

meeting called to order at 2 P.M.

 - discuss future of the TC

Members do want to continue, as they are not confident that
EBXML will actually cover the same ground and is more specific,
and as XML.org needs some kind of technical support.  It was
agreed that the administrative base needs specification as does
interoperation of registries.  Terry agrees to tweak the statement 
of purpose to say that the TC's specification should "support"
the registration of XML-related entities, not just be "for"
that purpose.

 - NIST update

NIST has proposed an info model and has implemented it, along 
with the old implementation for the withdrawn OASIS tech spec.  
IMS has decided it doesn't need a detailed registry; they are more
interested in profiles of owners of learning objects and don't 
even necessarily want a repository - you'd contact the owner 
of the learning objects independently.
 
 - EBXML update

No recent news.

 - XML.org update

Was to launch imminently but postponed because it doesn't have
sufficient submissions, (so the repository hasn't been populated).

 - review previous Design Principles and Scenarios
	with a view to affirming them

The TC agreed that the Design Principles and the Scenarios
are generally okay; Terry is to revise them lightly and
submit them for a vote.

 - NIIEPA brief description

It's a think tank, interested in XML in general for a 5-year 
e-commerce and supply chain IT improvement project.  They have a 
registry and repository project.

 - review Boeing Baseline document esp. for functional
	requirements

Jamie Walker described the document briefly as a high-level
overview that deals with all the pieces Boeing sees necessary.

 - review NIST Info Model as basis for new spec

Lisa described the context of the Info Model and it was agreed
that it constituted a proposal for a new OASIS spec.  We should
be prepared to start discussing it in pieces and to vote on
some revision of it at an August meeting.

 - elect chair pro tempore

Terry resigned as chairman and called for nominees for chairman
pro tempore.  Lisa was the only nominee, was elected, and took over
for the rest of the meeting.  The committee decided not to vote to
recommend to the Board that it appoint Lisa chair, as we weren't
clear on procedure; Terry has notified the Advisory Committee on
Technical Committees of the change, and it will be for the ACTC
to figure out what to do.  The sense of the meeting was certainly
that we want Lisa to continue as chair.

 - determine schedule for rest of year

There is to be a biweekly conf call at 7 AM Pacific every other Thursday
starting 29 June 00.  NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND DAY, the first to accomodate
East Asian participants and the second to avoid schedule conflicts
for current members.

We agreed to meet on a day before or after the August EBXML meeting,
which is to be held on the S.F. Peninsula somewhere.

 - decide how to proceed with spec

We decided to break the NIST info model into pieces and discuss 
them seriatim in phone conferences.

 - adjourned at 5 PM as planned.

Terry is to rewrite Design Principles & Scenarios; notify ACTC of change 
in chair, and to provide Lisa with info about how to do chair things.

Terry is to write up the application of THTTP to our work, with a 
placeholder for I2X and what the return looks like, and a proposal
for an XML format of lists of URLs and URNs.


regards, Terry