Statements of Use

[David Keaton <dmk@dmk.com>]

     Here is the information I promised during the meeting.

     The Statements of Use are for a couple of stages farther along in 
the process than we are now:

1.  We are about to approve a Committee Specification Draft and start a 
public comment period on it.

2.  After the public comment period concludes, if we make no substantive 
changes, we can approve the draft as a Committee Specification.

3.  The next step is to submit that Committee Specification as a 
Candidate OASIS Standard.  To do so, we will need three Statements of 
Use, which must be for the Committee Specification being considered for 
Candidate OASIS Standard.  It takes a careful reading, but the following 
text does indicate that the Statements of Use must reference "the 
Committee Specification" being promoted.

https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process-2017-05-26#OSsubmission

3a.  The Statements of Use must indicate whether all of the current 
Committee Specification is in use, or parts of it.  If only parts, the 
specific conformance clauses being used must be indicated.

https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/oasis-defined-terms-2018-05-22#dStatementUse

     However, note that someone who conforms to a previous CSD could 
rightfully claim that they conform to the current Committee 
Specification for those conformance clauses that have not changed since 
the earlier CSD.

     The Statements of Use may be from members or nonmembers, but at 
least one must be from an OASIS Organizational member.

					David