[wss] Our goals for the next few weeks

[Kelvin Lawrence <klawrenc@us.ibm.com>]

On the call this week we discussed establishing
some goals (milestones) to keep us focussed on the job at hand and keep
us moving forward. I agreed to post a message summarizing that discussion.
SPECIAL NOTE - If you were not on the call, please study this carefully
as we all have some actions here. 

The goal is to get us to the point where we have a draft of our spec that
the TC is happy with (by a vote) that we can declare as our "interop
draft" such that some amount of implementation and interop testing
can start. This is very important as we would like to be in a position
where we can point to a set of interoperable implementations of our spec
by the time we feel we are ready to take our spec forward to the larger
OASIS membership for review. To this end we defined a time-line as follows:

All outstanding issues to be submitted by Monday Nov 11th (ideally based
on the Core Draft 3 document which is on the web page now)
A new issues list will be posted by EOD Wednesday Nov 13th
The WSS TC will make as much progress as possible on these issues in e-mail
prior to next call. 
There will be a WSS TC phone call Tuesday Nov 19th - this call will focus
on resolving open issues. 
Following that call, the Editors will produce new drafts as quickly as
possible 
Once issues with the core spec have been resolved, and the draft distributed,
we will arrange a call to vote on that draft as our "interop draft"
Then we will focus on the profiles (probably during the F2F)

(As a sidenote, (in order to make progress
and manage the list) I propose that issues posted after Nov 11th  be
deferred to a later draft unless they are "show-stoppers" for
the interop draft.)

I think we are making good pogress on
our open issues and hopefully the proposal above will help keep us moving
forward.

Cheers
Kelvin