[stdsreg] minutes of StdsReg mtg 14 January

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

Minutes of the Standards Registry Committee conference call #16?, 14
January 2003 (submitted by John Ketchell)

(Call hosted by ANSI)

1. Introduction

Roll call and welcome.
Attendance: Karl Best (Chair), Martin Bryan, Bob Hager, Em DelaHostria, 
John Ketchell

Apologies had been received from Karen Boehme and François Coailler.

The agenda was approved (N039).

2. Approval of record of previous meeting

Karl noted that the 26 November meeting had been postponed due to
technical difficulties. Previous meeting was 22 October; there was no 
objection to approving the minutes of that meeting.

There were two matters of business raised:

- Karl reported that he would present the forthcoming meta-data 
conference in Santa Fe with information on the Committee, the proposed
ISO activity, and the proposed OASIS implementation of the Committee 
specification.

- Bob reported that the ANSI web site had been re-launched as of the 
first of the year, and as a  result the pages relating to the StdsReg 
Committee and its activities had been lost temporarily to public access. 
This would be restored as quickly as possible using the same URL

3. Review of the status of the public review

Bob had received around 30 responses, with some more still promised. 
Many of the comments had been positive and supportive, and indeed some 
had been confined to expressions of support.

In discussion on this and the following agenda item, it was agreed not 
to extend the original general deadline, but that Bob would follow up 
with those entities that had promised further contributions, with a view 
to securing their inputs before the end of January (ACTION 16/1).

Bob will produce as soon as possible a synthesis of the comments (ACTION 
16/2). The Committee will review these electronically, with a view to 
rapid agreement on those requiring no specific action, which were purely 
editorial issues, or where resolution was straightforward. It was hoped 
that the result of this process would be only a small residual core of 
comments, that could then be discussed in a future Committee meeting.

It was noted that the comments - or at least their resolution - would 
need to be submitted to ISO/IEC JTC1 if at all possible.

4.  Review of submission to ISO

ISO/IEC JTC1 had agreed in principle to take the specification up within 
SC32, which was meeting at the end of January. Bob had discussed with 
Frank Farrance the concept of integrating the results of our public 
comments into the JTC1 considerations. However, it was not immediately 
clear what the exact JTC1 process was, nor whether the forthcoming SC32 
Plenary would constitute the start of the work. Our committee has not 
yet finalized the specification, so we want to ensure that JTC1 will 
work on our finalized version rather than the draft version. Bob 
undertook to discuss the process with Lisa Rajchel and Frank Farrance 
and inform the Committee accordingly (ACTION 16/3).

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

Karl noted that the original Charter had proposed the Committee prepare 
a taxonomy and a means to link registries, but subsequently the 
Committee had wondered whether there was enough support or expertise to 
carry these activities. One possibility might be to try to carry them 
out within JTC1.

On the other hand, it was noted that some Committee participants - 
OASIS, ANSI and CEN/ISSS - propose to implement the specification, 
initially on a pilot basis, and that possibly this such implementations 
were in any case necessary before any cross-references, etc. were 
possible. The Committee might perhaps continue until the proposed 
registries were up-and-running in order for it to consider the results 
of these initial "pilot" implementations. Any necessary inputs affecting 
the specification could be input to JTC1. It was therefore agreed to 
propose to replace the existing deliverables 2 and 3 with a new 
deliverable; the Committee would consider the draft Charter amendment 
(annexed to the present minutes) at its next meeting.

6.  Any other business

None

7.  Schedule next meeting and solicit host

This would be on Tuesday 4 February, same time. OASIS would host the 
meeting and notify the Committee of the relevant call numbers.


ANNEX

Proposed Charter amendment. Delete deliverables 2 and 3 and replace with 
new deliverable 2:

The Committee will consider the initial implementations of the meta-data 
specifications, on the basis of progress reports from members. It will 
compare and contrast experience, and endeavour to resolve any problems 
encountered, in the form of proposed amendments to the meta-data 
specification or other recommendations. It will take due account of the 
progress of the specification as a deliverable of ISO/IEC JTC1, and will 
submit any proposed amendments or other recommendations requiring its 
consideration to JTC1.