Re: [rights-requirements] Statement of Examples SC

[Deirdre Mulligan <dmulligan@law.berkeley.edu>]

I agree with Anne.

Anne Anderson wrote:

> On 11 June, Patrick Durusau writes: [rights-requirements] Statement of Examples SC
>  > The Examples SubCommittee proposes the following process, to be approved
>  > by the Requirements SC and adopted by the Rights TC to govern the
>  > handling of pending and future examples submitted to the Examples SC:
>  >
>  > 1. All parties are invited to submit examples, either based upon current
>  > submissions or entirely new examples to the Examples SC.
>  >
>  > 2. The Examples SC will meet and work on preliminary answers to
>  > submitted examples in its public forums, but will not issue definitive
>  > answers until informed by the drafting committee that is has a draft it
>  > thinks is ready for TC consideration. Its answers to any examples will
>  > be reviewed against that draft and either revised answers prepared or
>  > answers to unanswered examples will be prepared.
>  >
>  > 3.The Rights TC should adopt a process statement saying that all
>  > examples sponsored by an RLTC member must be resolved by consensus of
>  > the Examples SC prior to any vote on a specification by the Rights TC.
>
> I have a very different view of the role of the Examples
> Subcommittee.
>
> The Samuelson Law Clinic has submitted examples (use cases).
> Many of us feel the current draft specification is not able to
> express the requirements of those examples, but do not have the
> XrML expertise to verify this.  I was hoping that the Examples
> Subcommittee would consist of XrML experts who could
>
> 1) Show us how to express the already-submitted examples in XrML,
>    if possible.
>
> 2) Point out based on the exercise what might be useful changes
>    in the XrML specification.
>
> Other members of the TC who are not XrML experts can then review
> the solutions to the examples and discuss whether they seem
> adequate.
>
> Reports from the Examples Subcommittee need not be "definitive".
> They can be relative to a particular version of the draft spec,
> and can be updated based on spec changes designed to deal with
> problems in previous expressions of the examples.
>
> To wait until we have a semi-final document before even testing
> it against submitted examples seems like a recipe for delay in
> specification approval, as follows:
>
> 1. Spec "ready for TC consideration" produced by the "drafting
>    committee" (do we have such a committee?  Isn't it just Hari?)
> 2. Examples subcommittee expresses examples
> 3. Examples subcommittee may run into problems requiring a change
>    in the draft spec.  Go to 1.
> 4. Or, examples subcommittee does not run into problems, but other
>    TC members disagree with the results, and send spec and
>    examples back to respective committees.  Go to 1.
>
> I would like to see a more cooperative, incremental approach that
> allows more of this work to be done in parallel in the interests
> of avoiding roadblocks.
>
> Anne
>
> P.S. I tried to find a copy of the most recent RLTC
>      Specification on the RLTC Web Site.  Searching the
>      "documents" for "specification" does not bring it up.  It
>      would be extremely useful to have links on the top-level
>      RLTC Web Page to the most recent versions of all working
>      documents:
>
>      a) Specification draft
>      b) Schema drafts
>      c) Requirements draft
>      d) Examples draft
>
> Anne
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