RE: [xtm-wg] ISO 11179 attributes for XTM?

["Mason, James David (MXM) " <mxm@ornl.gov>]

Well, ISO itself doesn't do RAs, it just provides the framework in standards
like 10036, 9070, and 11179, then someone else like OCLC or OASIS runs the
registry. (ISO doesn't expect to go out of business, but it simply doesn't
have the infrastructure to run RAs.) So I'd expect either a new standard or
an amendment to 13250 to set things in motion.

The reason I point to things like OCLC or maybe OASIS is that they have a
fair likelihood for being around 10 years from now to maintain the registry.
If the successor to TopicMaps.org is a part of OASIS, then that might do. I
agree that the community needs to support whatever place we wind up with.
But TopicMaps.org as it was a year ago would have been a poor choice because
(1) we now know what happened to it and (2) it didn't even own its own
domain name. If we'd put "TopicMaps.org" into a URL, we'd have run into a
real potential for the dead URL problem. If we get to the point of having
"topicmaps.oasis-open.org", there's more probability that the URL will work
next year.

Jim



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Murray Altheim [SMTP:altheim@eng.sun.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:17 PM
> To:	xtm-wg@yahoogroups.com
> Subject:	Re: [xtm-wg] ISO 11179 attributes for XTM?
> 
> "Mason, James David (MXM)" wrote:
> > 
> > Sounds plausible to me. It also gets back to the issue of OCLC and
> > registration authorities. If we added DC stuff to 13250, the logical RA
> home
> > for it would be OCLC, since they do the rest of DC.
>  
> Jim,
> 
> Perhaps you misread me. The suggestion to add ISO 11179 attributes to
> the ISO 13250 and XTM DTDs would have nothing to do with DC or OCLC,
> except that they happen to do the same thing in DCMES. We'd be more
> compatible with DC products, but OCLC or DCMI need not be involved
> at all. This is work for us, and the RA should probably be at
> TopicMaps.Org
> or ISO (though I understand the unlikelihood of the latter, hence my
> suggestion of the former since we control it). This shouldn't be
> construed as any slight on OCLC, an organization I like very much,
> but only that the topic map community owns the concept, and should
> probably own the RA. IMO.
>  
> Murray
> 
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