RE: [tax] Groups - Extra TC telecon added

["DeCastro,Peter M." <PDECASTRO@mitre.org>]

I'll start with the fact that XML is a W3C 'specification' not a
standard (See the  W3C web site). In defining XML we wander through
several variations why not pluck  the one from  W3C? - "Extensible
Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived
from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of
large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly
important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and
elsewhere." From there we can expand on its relevance to the tax domain.

Which brings us to the use of the term "XML standard" which is never
clearly explained. We explain 'open standards' but never distinguish
what constitutes an "XML standard".

Peter




-----Original Message-----
From: h.j.m.burg@minfin.nl [mailto:h.j.m.burg@minfin.nl] 
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 3:03 AM
To: tax@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [tax] Groups - Extra TC telecon added


Extra TC telecon has been added by Mr. Harm-Jan van Burg

Date:  Wednesday, 24 August 2005
Time:  04:00pm - 06:00pm ET

Event Description:
the call info will be provided as soon as possible

Agenda:
This extra conference call is nessesary because the discussions about
the position paper take so much time that the deadline for the OECD
meeting in Stochholm is in real danger. As a matter of fact The deadline
for sending in papers for that meeting was  august 15 so we are already
a bit late. I extended our time to september 1. Although the meeting
itself is on september 14/15, sending in too late means that country
representatives cannot prepaire properly so no decission can be taken
and we lose a whole year.

I have noticed that part of the discussion in the last telecon is a
duplicate of the Philadelphia meeting. This cannot be the case. Besides
that we take much time to discuss the OECD developments STF and SAF. In
both cases no standards by any OASIS definition and even not by our own
defination. Next to this: we have limited influence here. Both the OECD
groups who are responsible for these producs repeadedly stressed that
they had their own decisionmaking proces. Especially STF has up till now
never changed anything because we have an opinion. So we go back to our
initial position about STF and SAF with some minor modifications or we
skip all the paragraphs concerning.
Reaching concensus is a fine thing and my aim from the onstart but we
can use the voting mechanism.

So wednesday teleconference covers only the position paper. We will
discuss in principal only concrete text proposals.

Last chance to bring in tekst proposals is Monday 8 pm Eastern time.

Harm Jan van Burg
Chair OASIS tax-xml

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