RE: [xcbf] Groups - XCBF XML Common Biometric Format CS April 3 2003.zip uploaded (fwd)

["Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@oss.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Larmouth [mailto:j.larmouth@salford.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 10:59
> To: Phillip H. Griffin
> Cc: Bancroft Scott; xcbf@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [xcbf] Groups - XCBF XML Common Biometric Format 
> CS April 3 2003.zip uploaded (fwd)
> 
> 
> There is absolutely no other agenda.
> 
> But producing standards that are not consistent is not a good idea. I 
> suspect that some of us (me included) did not take time to fully 
> understand the OASIS progression processes, and tended to assume that 
> problems could be sorted out at later stages.


I made the same mistake.  I didn't take enough time to study the OASIS
standard process and assumed that corrections could be made later.  My
fault, of course.  This influenced my YES vote on the ballot.  

But, especially after James Clark's response, I have now learned that an
approved CS is a definitive document.  The only way to change it is for
the TC to approve another CS and re-submit it, and even this is not
always possible.

So there are at least two members of the TC who voted YES and are now
concerned about the quality of the current CS as a definitive document.
In my opinion, that ballot should be ineffective.

Alessandro