Re: [xliff] *1st DRAFT* XLIFF TC Charter Clarification

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Tony:

Thanks for fololowing up on this. A few suggestions:

* The name of the TC should include "OASIS", so therefore the "OASIS XML 
Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC"

* The charter needs to include a Scope, Audience, and Langauge (please 
see http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#formation for a 
definition of these). I suspect that a lot of the text that you'll want 
for Scope and Audience is probbaly already in th Statement of Purpose 
section, so you'll just want to do some rearranging.

* The List of Deliverables needs to include dates.

* Some of the historical information could be reduced or eliminated; 
while some background is interesting, the charter is really about what 
the TC is doing now and in the future.

Please inform me when the TC approves a revision.

thanks
-Karl



Tony Jewtushenko wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> <>I've taken a stab at the first draft of the Charter Clarification for 
> the XLIFF TC.
> 
> We need dates assigned to the deliverables.  Anyone care to take a stab 
> at that?
> 
> Let me know what you think...
> 
> Regards,
> Tony
> 
> 
> The charter for this TC is as follows.
> 
> Name
> 
> XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF)
> 
> Statement of Purpose
> 
> The purpose of the OASIS XLIFF TC is to define, through XML 
> vocabularies, and promote the adoption of, an extensible specification 
> for the interchange of localization information. To date,  the committee 
> has published two specifications - XLIFF 1.0  and XLIFF 1.1 - that 
> define how to mark up and capture localizable data and interoperate with 
> different processes or phases without loss of information. The 
> vocabularies are tool-neutral, support the localization-related aspects 
> of internationalization and the entire localization process. The 
> vocabularies support common software and content data formats. The 
> specifications provide an extensibility mechanism to allow the 
> development of tools compatible with an implementer's own proprietary 
> data formats and workflow requirements.
> 
> The state of affairs in software localisation before XLIFF was that a 
> software provider delivered their localisable resources to a 
> localisation service provider in a number of disparate file formats. 
> Once software providers commenced implementing XLIFF, the task of 
> interchanging localisation data became simpler. Using proprietary and 
> nonstandard resource formats force either the software provider or the 
> localisation service provider to implement a costly and inefficient 
> bespoke process for localising their content. For a software publishers 
> with many proprietary or nonstandard formats, this requirement becomes a 
> major hurdle when attempting to localise their software.  For software 
> developers employing enterprise localisation tools and processes,  XLIFF 
> defines a standard but extensible vocabulary that captures relevant 
> metadata at any point of the lifecycle which can be exchanged between a 
> variety of commercial and open-source tools.
> 
> <>The first phase,  now completed,  created a committee specification 
> that concentrated on software UI file requirements. The next phase 
> consists of promoting the adoption of XLIFF throughout the industry 
> through additional collateral and specifications, continuing to advance 
> the committee specification  towards a full  OASIS standard, 
> contributing to the development of standard localisation directives tag 
> library and consuming it when available, and defining and publishing an 
> implementation guide for document based content that addresses 
> segmentation and alignment requirements. To encourage adoption of 
> XLIFF,  the TC will define and publish implementation guides for the 
> most commonly used resource formats (HTML,  RTF, Window Resources, Java 
> Resource Bundles, .NET),  and will include reference implementations of 
> XLIFF 1.1.
> 
> The OASIS XLIFF TC concluded a 45 day public review from 11 Aug and 
> ended 24 September 2003. The TC revised and then approved a Committee 
> Specification based on the comments received,  publishing the XLIFF 1.1 
> Committee Specification 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/documents/cs-xliff-core-1.1-20031031.htm> 
> and XLIFF 1.1 XSD schema 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/documents/xliff-core-1.1.xsd>.. 
> All public comments submitted were resolved, and a report of all public 
> review activity 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/4191/Review-XLIFF-1.1.html> 
> is publicly available.
> 
> XLIFF is based on initial work done by the Yahoo! DataDefinition Group. 
> That group published a white paper, a specification and a DTD, which 
> were made public through that group's site. The XLIFF 1.0 specification 
> was approved as Committee Specification by the XLIFF TC in April 2002.
> 
> XLIFF 1.0 was submitted with the following intellectual property rights 
> statement:
> 
> Each of the submitting companies, referenced in section (vii), below, 
> agrees to offer a license, on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, 
> to use any patent claim it owns or controls and which is necessarily 
> infringed by use of the XLIFF format described in this submission or any 
> Committee Specification or OASIS standard based thereon. Such a license 
> will be for the limited purpose of implementing the XLIFF format 
> described in this submission or in any Committee Specification or OASIS 
> standard based thereon, and may be conditioned on the licensee's 
> agreement to grant a reciprocal license on reasonable and 
> non-discriminatory terms to use any patent claim it owns or controls and 
> which is necessarily infringed by use of the XLIFF format described in 
> this submission or in any Committee Specification or OASIS standard 
> based thereon.
> 
> The archive for previous discussions can be found at the following URL:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DataDefinition
> 
> The white paper, the specification, and the DTD and can be found at this 
> URL:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DataDefinition/files/Final
> 
> List of Deliverables
> 
>     * XLIFF 1.1 Document-based Content Implementation Guide
>       (Segmentation & Alignment)
>     * XLIFF 1.1 XHTML/HTML Representation Guide
>     * XLIFF 1.1 RTF Representation Guide
>     * XLIFF 1.1 .NET Representation Guide
>     * XLIFF 1.1 Java Resource Bundle Representation Guide
>     * XLIFF 1.1 Windows Resources Representation Guide
>     * XLIFF 1.1  PO File Representation Guide
>     * XLIFF 1.1 Reference Implementation (as Open Source?  In
>       collaboration with Trans-WS?)
>     * Submit XLIFF 1.1 for consideration as OASIS Standard
>     * Review and input to development of Standard Localisation
>       Directives Tag Library
>     * XLIFF 1.1: Consume / Implement Standard Localisation Directives
>       Tag Library
> 
> -- 
> Tony Jewtushenko				
> Principal Product Manager - Oracle Application Development Tools
> Oracle Corporation, Ireland
> 
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