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Dear Colleagues,
Basically agree. ISO and ISO/IEC JCTC 1 will
not be ready to consider the specs for fast-track or PAS until it has the
necessary backing from the user organisations.
On the other hand, if ISO or ISO/IEC JCTC 1 are
still the final target, some preparatory work can be done with them concurently
to accelererate things. To do that, the project will have to hae an
official status in one of the organization that has a status with
ISO.
François
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Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:21
PM
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.
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