RE: [xtm-wg] Deadlines for Paris WAS RE: [xtm-wg] Proposal for Ch ris Angus to be Invited Guest to XTM Authoring Group

[Daniel Rivers-Moore <daniel.rivers-moore@rivcom.com>]

Sam

Where does this deadline come from?

The Status clause in the Review Specification states "On December 4th, 2000,
this document enters an Authoring Group Review period. From that date until
January 21st, 2001, TopicMaps.Org Authoring Group (AG) members are
encouraged to review this specification and return comments to the XTM
Authoring Group."

I would also point out that Clause 5.1.2. (XTM Approval) of our Charter
states "Formal adoption and all revisions to XTM shall require a two-thirds
majority vote of the Participating Members."

I am not aware that any of the documents published at Washington have been
through this approval process. What is the plan for when and how this will
be done? My reading is that notwithstanding any statement of Status in any
of these documents, they have not yet been formally adopted by the Authoring
Group. My presumption is that in Paris we will do our best to reach a point
where we agree on an XTM 1.0 specification and formally approve it, but that
failing that, our aim is to achieve that by the end of our face-to-face in
Austin. I base this on Michel's email to this list and the topicmapmail list
of 6 December, entitled "Announcement of XTM 1.0" where he says:
"- The Paris meeting (January 19-20-21) will be the end of the review
process. Final specification should be available for distribution at the
Knowledge Technologies Conference in Austin, Texas, early March."

Daniel


-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Hunting [mailto:sam_hunting@yahoo.com]
Sent: 13 December 2000 18:50
To: xtm
Subject: [xtm-wg] Deadlines for Paris WAS RE: [xtm-wg] Proposal for
Chris Angus to be Invited Guest to XTM Authoring Group


[michel]
> We are now heading for publication of the full
> spec after discussing it during the coming weeks, so that
> everything gets finalized in Paris.
 
To meet this deliverable, requests for editorial changes and/or
additions must be submitted by Monday January 8 at 5:00 PST (more
than 3 weeks away).
 
This is to give the editorial and production teams time to integrate
all the material, communicate with authors, etc., while avoiding any
production difficulties that would cause lack of harmony or errors in
the final deliverables.
 
Murray will (I am sure) propose a process for submitting change
requests when he returns from Hawaii; in the interim, I suggest that
people prepend "[EDIT]" to the subject lines for change requests,
and, in the body of the mail, reference the section number in which the
requested change would take place. If anyone has a better interim
process?
 
S.
For the Editors


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