IETF as a host organization for XTM?

["Michel Biezunski" <mb@infoloom.com>]

Yesterday, Dianne Kennedy and I had a meeting with Cecilia Preston, who
is involved in the ISOC (Internet Society) family of standards, of which
IETF is a member.
Cecilia is the head of IRTF (Internet Resource Task Force), which takes care
of how things are addressed on the Internet, such as URNs (in supplement
to URI and URLs).

It appears that the model followed by IETF is to be completely open.
Since there is a consensus within the XTM group for an open standard,
it might be quite interesting, we think, to make a review of what these
standards
are, and to decide whether we want, as a group, go for an RFC (Request for
Comments) in the ISOC family of standards, which by the way is not directly
related to W3C, which means that we might as well end up also with a note to
W3C.

Michel

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven R. Newcomb [mailto:srn@techno.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 11:01 AM
> To: xtm-wg@eGroups.com
> Cc: xtm-wg@eGroups.com; topicmapmail@infoloom.com
> Subject: Re: [xtm-wg] Re: XTM-WG Charter Approval
>
>
> [Murray Altheim:]
>
> > I have one concern about the charter and would like clarification:
> > if we are not able to gain the proper ratio of technology
> > vs. content companies represented in the WG, does this keep us from
> > beginning?
>
> That was not the intent, no.
>
> > If at some point a company drops out and the ratio dips,
> > do we have to quit?
>
> That was not the intent, no.
>
> In the passage below, the first few words ("When technology-oriented
> Participating Members are added") were intended to indicate that the
> balancing rule only applies when Participating Members join the AG.
> Nobody has to quit because somebody leaves: the rule doesn't apply at
> that time.  The rule is intended to apply the next time somebody wants
> to be added, at which time the sentence beginning with "In
> practice..."  explains what is likely to have to happen in order to
> restore balance.
>
> ::
>
>     When technology-oriented Participating Members are added,
>     technology-oriented Participating Members may not constitute an
>     absolute majority of the resulting TopicMaps.Org Specification
>     Authoring Group.  (In practice, this rule means that there
>     may be occasions when a content-oriented Participating Member must
>     be added, or a technology-oriented Participating Member can be
>     replaced, in order to allow the addition of a new
>     technology-oriented Participating Member.)
>
> -Steve
>
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