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Subject: [stdsreg] Some ideas on further process
Before I forget, here my ideas on further process: 1. Finalise draft spec a. We need a type of 'reference description' of the spec, for example modelled on the Dublin Core reference description. b. Then we need an accompanying text with objectives, rationale, and a couple of examples where the spec is applied to describe existing standards - as I said earlier, I am confident that I can get someone to describe the main DC specifications this way. c. Finally, we need to get a couple of examples how to code this in XML, so as to give the reader all they need to see how it would work in practice and give them a complete basis to comment on 2. Distribute the documents and solicit feedback Send it out to as many SDOs/Committees/Groups as we can find and solicit feedback. We need to set up a mechanism for ourselves to handle replies - it would seem to be the most efficient if feedback were to be sent to a single person, who then reports to the group. We can discuss and resolve issues on our regular calls. After revision to take into account valuable feedback, we can finalise the spec. Now for the further process, I would prefer not to try and get it adopted as a standard in one of the open-process organisations (yet), but I would want it to get adopted in the organisations that are represented in our group, most notably ANSI, CEN and OASIS, as an internal working document for their own documentation process. I have no idea if there is a central responsibility for documentation in these organisations - that mandates the working groups to provide metadata with their documents or creates metadata for specs that come out of the working groups (I am assuming that you all have a database with all your documents and that would be the point to impose our spec). The spec could then be published by all these three organisations at more or less the same time. Then, I would suggest, the three organisations could issue a joint statement, addressed to ISO, IEEE, IETF, W3C etc. etc., suggesting that they adopt it as well. After that, I think it would be easy to get the spec processed as a formal international standard somewhere, but preferable at ISO. Makx. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Makx Dekkers e-mail: mail@makxdekkers.com tel: +352 2636 0150 fax: +352 2636 0151 GSM: +352 021 199910
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