RE: [topicmaps-comment] RE: OASIS vs W3C

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

W3C process is modeled (more or less) on ISO process. TMCL is out for ballot
on as a new work item. If that passes (and TMCL gets a number from it), then
it's at the point that W3C projects are at when they say it's time to start
getting contributions, holding meetings, etc. Actually, in ISO we compress
the first steps, so that we can push something through CD (Committee Draft)
status very quickly and get to DIS (Draft International Standard, ISO's
counterpart of the W3C's Candidate Recommendation) almost as fast as the
committee wants it. If the TMCL ballot passes, we could issue a DIS out of
the December meeting.

Jim Mason

James David Mason, Ph.D.

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Chairman, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sam Hunting [SMTP:sam_hunting@yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:42 AM
> To:	Lars Marius Garshol; topicmaps-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject:	Re: [topicmaps-comment] RE: OASIS vs W3C
> 
> [lars]
> > For topic maps work has started on TMCL, which will be the topic map
> > equivalent of RDF Schema. At the moment, all we have is a
> > requirements document and a strawman proposal. Hopefully we will get 
> > at least one serious proposal before long.
> 
> Maybe I don't understand the ISO process well enough, but I'm not sure
> that making TMCL a "work item" and giving it a number means that it
> "will" become anything at all, let alone the "equivalent" (whatever
> that may be) of RDF schema (whatever requirements it may or may not
> meet).
> 
> S.
> 
> 
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