Re: [xtm-wg] Questions about the Charter

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

It would seem that we could all get to the interesting, ie technical
issues in Paris if we could come to as much consensus as possible
beforehand via email. So I'm going to throw in my $0.02 and me-toos for
all of Steve's points.

[steve pepper]
> (1) Name of the specification
> There was a proposal some time back about keeping the TLA as
> the name of the specification ("XTM Specification") and using
> "TopicMaps.Org" just as the name of the organization. At the
> time there were only positive comments to this proposal. Can
> we amend the draft Charter accordingly?

Yes.

> 
> (2) Founding members
> In order to bootstrap the organization, and to offset the fact
> that all meetings up until the next one in Paris were held in
> the US, there was an idea to have special provisions for
> founding members. As far as I can see, no formal proposal was
> ever codified. Can we do that before the meeting, in order to
> save discussion time there? My proposal would be that anyway
> who has attended *any* two meetings up to and including Paris
> should qualify as a (potential) Participating Member.

There was also an idea (I don't recall where expressed) also bootstrap
members on the basis of significant contributions to the literature.

Since "significant" is a pretty vague term, I propose that the editors
of the TNM standard submit names to be bootstrapped into membership on
the basis of significant contributions to the literature, to be cited;
that the WG vote the proposed names up or down; and that a given name
can be proposed only once.

> (3) "Co-chairs" and "Editors"
> The terms co-chairs and editors are introduced in 5.1.4 without
> any explanation as to how they are appointed. This should be
> rectified.

Actually, this strikes me (with apologies to John LeCarre) as a sort of
"Was Christ born on Christmas Day?" sort of discussion.... I'd propose
amend 5.14 to "co-chair (currently [name])".

If the current process of appointment is not well documented, figuring
it out could really hang us up. 

> (4) Role of OASIS
> I would like to hear something about the proposed role of OASIS
> in TopicMaps.Org. At one time the intention was that this should
> be a joint project of IDEAlliance and OASIS, but only IDEAlliance
> is mentioned in the Charter. What is the current status of the
> discussions? My personal opinion is that it would be advantageous
> to have both organizations involved.

Agreed.

> (5) One PM per "organization"
> Do we need to define the term "organization" as used in 3.5.2 in
> order to avoid interpretation problems later on?

Excellent point. Does an ISO guru know if there is relevant language in
the ISO world that we could adopt?

 
S.

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