[stdsreg] Meeting minutes #14, 22 Oct 2002 [N037]

[Karl Best <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Subject: StdsReg meeting minutes, 22 October.  Document N037

Minutes of the Standards Registry Committee conference call #14, 22 
October 2002 (submitted by John Ketchell)

Attendance: Karl Best, Karen Boehme, Martin Bryan, Jim French, Bob 
Hager, John Ketchell

(Call hosted by OASIS)

1. Introduction

Roll call and welcome from Karl Best.

The agenda was approved (N036) with the addition of a scheduling 
discussion for the public review under item 5.  It was agreed to cover 
the outstanding technical issues during the discussion on item 4, first 
action.

2. Approval of record 13th meeting (11 September 2002) (N035)

The record was approved.

As a matter arising, Bob informed the meeting that the Home Page for the 
Committee had been updated with corrected links, and ANSI would 
endeavour to keep it updated in future.  A full document list had been 
provided and the URLs linking to the documents had been shortened to 
facilitate use.

3. Review of the status of items for public review

Bob reported he and John had finalized the introduction by e-mail 
exchanges.

John had dispatched the text to the CEN/ISSS consortia list on 3 
October.  He was expecting to receive an error report.

Bob reported that prior to the ANSI dispatch, there had been internal 
discussion about the introductory text in the context of ANSI's overall 
policy towards its SDOs and towards standards consortia.  This 
necessitated proposals for some adjustments to the wording of the 
introductory note.  Internal agreement had nearly been reached, and Bob 
was confident he would be in a position to make the ANSI dispatch within 
a week.

The Committee considered whether this "staggered dispatch" constituted a 
difficulty, and whether there should be a separate closing date for 
those in receipt of the ANSI dispatch.  It was agreed that, assuming no 
further unforeseen delays, this did not constitute a problem, as even 
the ANSI recipients would have at least 60 days.  Bob would consult the 
Committee by e-mail if there were any further delays.

Bob reported that the draft specification was on the agenda for the 
November meeting of ISO/ITSIG (the Committee co-ordinating IT issues in 
ISO), and he would attend to present it.  He would also be in touch with 
the NIST 806 Committee.  John undertook to brief the CEN delegate to ITSIG.

John reported that the specification had been briefly considered by the 
CEN/ISSS Forum, which included CEN Members, with no negative comments 
being made.  It would be discussed in the ICT Standards Board the 
following week.

4.  Review of submission to ISO

Karl reported that François was at present attending the ISO/IEC JTC1 
Plenary meeting, and would report back at the end of the week on the 
discussions there.  It was noted that Frank Farrance of Farrance Inc. 
had already made some technical points, and would be discussing them 
with François during the meeting.

5.  Discussion:  drop deliverables 2 and 3 from our Charter?

Karl reminded the Committee that the Charter foresaw three deliverables. 
  The first was the specification now out for public comment.  It had 
then been proposed to select a taxonomy that could be used to classify 
each SDO's specifications, and to produce a recommendation for how 
standards registries can be used together to allow common searching.

The Committee thought that producing a taxonomy would be difficult and 
indeed of limited value.  There would be likely to be requirements for 
multiple taxonomies depending on SDOs' circumstances and organizational 
links.  On the recommendation for common links, some members felt that a 
common API to enable links to be made between different SDOs would be 
very helpful.  It was noted that work already existed, for instance in 
version 3 of the OASIS ebXML Registry specification now under 
development, that would facilitate this.  It was therefore agreed that 
the Committee should provide some clear guidance as to how an API could 
be produced, and which current Groups had relevant material.

Martin agreed to draft a text for consideration as a replacement for the 
present Charter text on deliverables 2 and 3, for consideration by the 
next meeting (ACTION 14/1).

6.  Any other business

None

7.  Schedule nest meeting and solicit host

It was agreed to hold a further meeting, to consider review progress, on 
26 November at the usual time.  Bob offered to host the call.


Best regards
John Ketchell
Director, CEN/ISSS - Information Society Standardization System