Specification Lifecycle

Per our discussion today, here is the lifecycle of a specification:

- Working Draft – any work not formally approved by the committee membership

- Committee Draft – work that is approved by the committee membership

- Public Review Draft – a CD that has been approved for public review

- Committee Specification – a final deliverable

- Oasis Standard – approved as a standard

I like Dave’s suggestion that we pull together some of the various updates to the spec we’ve recently been discussing (interfaces, xquery, roles) and create WD#2, and after sufficient discussion/refinement vote to approve it as CD#1. As a CD it carries more weight in our external discussions.

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