Re: [unitsml] Current Meeting Ends Wednesday - Please Participate

["Simon P. Frechette" <simon.frechette@nist.gov>]

We have some of the rules encoded and some of the rules are not 
encodable (as with all NDRs). I will get back to everyone with what 
rules are encoded.

Simon

At 06:33 PM 7/1/2008, Gary W. Kramer wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I just finished listening to the audio from the recent UnitsML TC meeting and
>have a couple of comments.
>
>I was somewhat surprised to hear Simon say that he can validate the UnitsML
>schema against the UnitsML NDRs.  Does this mean that someone has encoded all
>the NDRs to make this possible?  Or am I missing something?
>
>My second comment concerns the migration to ISO instead of going 
>through OASIS
>to turn UnitsML into a standard.  Are we really sure that we understand the
>OASIS process?  From what I heard in this teleconference, it would seem that
>given the number of standards being developed and the wide range of those
>topics that it would be so difficult to find enough folks (vote holders) with
>the time and expertise to vet all the standards coming out of committees that
>the whole OASIS approval process would grind to a halt.  Perhaps we 
>should ask
>Jamie to attend the next meeting and explain candidly how this next step
>works.  I know we eventually want to take UnitsML to ISO, but I'm worried
>about the international politics component that often seems so prevalent in
>that organization might be a bigger burden and even more difficult 
>to surmount
>than the OASIS approval process.  I guess that I find it difficult to believe
>that a committee-recommended-standard candidate would be rejected by OASIS
>just because the vote holders are too busy, too inexperienced with the topic,
>or too indifferent to bother to vote on it.  We're talking about a technical
>organization not the US Congress (or my home-owners' association) here...
>
>Cheers,
>Gary
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> > As a reminder, the current UnitsML TC meeting ends Wednesday,
> > July 2.  Please participate by email if you have not already done
> > so.  (Even a "no comment" remark will do.)
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>Notes from the teleconference portion are here:
>
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> > http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/unitsml/
> > download.php/28681/telecon20080625.pdf
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>And the audio can be heard here:
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>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/downl
> > oad.php/28678/20080625_8kbps.wma
> >
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>
>-Mark Carlisle
>
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