Mary, this really cements it for me –
I don’t think any of us on the TC want to put the process of proofing
conversions of the editable source *ahead*
of the process of publishing it. I certainly don’t have the time to do it
right now.
So I’m going to go for the “presumptive
close”: any TC member who objects to our editable source (currently Word,
but could change at any point in the future) being the authoritative version,
please 1) speak up now, and 2) be prepared to immediately volunteer to convert
and proof the editable source for XRI Resolution 2.0 Committee Draft 03.
Unless we have any volunteers by the end
of the day, Mary, let’s proceed with Word as the authoritative version.
Thanks,
=Drummond
From: Mary McRae
[mailto:marypmcrae@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mary
McRae
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 2:53
PM
To: 'Drummond Reed'; 'Gabe Wachob'
Cc: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [xri] Re: Request for
Public Review of XRI Resolution Committee Draft 03
Hi Drummond,
Well, this
only went into effect on the 1st of this month, so you are, indeed,
the first. My feeling is that the authoritative version should be the version
that the editors actually worked with and not something that’s the result
of a conversion process – I’ve spent too many years working with
document conversion and know they’re never perfect. I also have examples
of PDFs that look different on different user’s systems (dependent on
some myriad of variables of course). That said, I lost that argument with the
Process Committee, and they decided to leave the choice up to the TC.
If you want
to use something other than the Word file I’ll send the document back to
you to convert and verify.
Mary
From: Drummond Reed
[mailto:drummond.reed@cordance.net]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 5:22
PM
To: 'Gabe Wachob';
mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
Cc: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [xri] Re: Request for
Public Review of XRI Resolution Committee Draft 03
I’m also cool with PDF as long as we
check the conversion (we need to anyway). But let me turn this back into a
question to Mary: what are other TCs doing? Are they electing to use their
editable source as the authoritative file, or one of the other two formats?
And in the end, does it really matter that
much, i.e., aren’t all outputs supposed to be identical (and
shouldn’t they be proofed for that purpose)? However, there is always the
potential for errors that won’t get caught, so it seems the me the SAFEST
position to take is declare our editable source as the authoritative version.
But I don’t feel strongly about
this, so I’ll defer to Mary’s recommendation.
=Drummond
From:
gwachob@gmail.com [mailto:gwachob@gmail.com] On
Behalf Of Gabe Wachob
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:10
PM
To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
Cc: Drummond Reed;
xri@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [xri] Re: Request for
Public Review of XRI Resolution Committee Draft 03
But we can check this
post-conversion, right?
So if we could be careful to make sure the conversion was correct, I would
still vote for PDF... after all it is supposed to be *portable* ;)
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
wrote:
Hi Gabe,
The problem is that sometimes characters don't
convert properly in PDF files – I've had several occasions where graphics
are misplaced or schemas or xml examples are corrupted with bogus symbols.
Regards,
Mary
I'd prefer PDF... since its less likely to have any
issues with readers, version skew, etc.
On Mon,
Mar 10, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@cordance.net>
wrote:
Mary,
Yes, I saw that when reviewing the message you sent out about the recent
revisions to the TC process, and it makes sense to me.
Since we have always used Word as our editable source, I think it makes the
most sense to declare that as authoritative.
Gabe or anyone else: do you see any reason not to declare the Word version
our authoritative version?
=Drummond
> Subject: RE: Request for Public Review of XRI
Resolution Committee Draft
> 03
>
> Hi Drummond,
>
> I just need one more thing. The new TC Process (effective 1 March
2008)
> requires the TC to declare one of the 3 versions as authoritative (word,
> html or
> pdf).
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2008-02-05.php#specQuality
> (5th para)
>
> Just let me know which one. The intent is in the case of discrepancy due
> to
> conversions or export routines, etc.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mary
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Drummond Reed [mailto:drummond.reed@cordance.net]
> > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:34 PM
> > To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> > Cc: gwachob@gmail.com;
xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: Request for Public Review of XRI Resolution Committee Draft
03
> >
> > Mary,
> >
> > I am pleased to say the vote to approve XRI Resolution 2.0 Committee
> Draft
> > 03 and submit it for a 15-day Public Review closed last night and it
> passed
> > unanimously, with 18 of 21 voting members voting. A copy of the
ballot
> > closure notice is included below.
> >
> > Per my conversation with you, following are the authoritative links
you
> > need
> > for the Public Review documents:
> >
> > 1) Normative Word version of the specification on which we held the
vote
> > (XRI Resolution 2.0 Committee Draft 04 Revision 04):
> >
> >
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27431/xri-resolution-
> > V2.0-
> > cd-02-rv-04.doc
> >
> >
> > 2) Normative RelaxNG files referenced from pages 23 and Appendix B of
> the
> > spec.
> >
> > xrds.rnc
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27422/xrds.rnc
> >
> > xrd.rnc
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27421/xrd.rnc
> >
> > (Note that the pointers in the OASIS repositories to the latest
version
> of
> > these files, referenced on lines 387 and 388 of the spec, will need
to
> be
> > updated too.)
> >
> >
> > 3) Per the comment on line 3772 in Appendix C, the link to the latest
> > xrd.xsd file needs to be changed to:
> >
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27430/xrd-v2.0.xsd
> >
> > (Note that the xrds.xsd file did not change.)
> >
> > 4) Lastly, since we will also be submitting XRI Syntax 2.0 Committee
> > Specification for the OASIS Standard vote, the authoritative link to
the
> > normative Word document for this specification is:
> >
> >
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xri/download.php/15375/xri-
> > synt
> > ax-V2.0-cs.doc
> >
> > Besides the need to store this document in the docs.oasis-open.org
> > repository and update the links in its front matter to reflect this,
we
> > also
> > need to update the reference to this document on line 204 of XRI
> Resolution
> > 2.0 Committee Draft 03.
> >
> > Please call or email me if you have any questions about this. We look
> > forward very much to conducting the second Public Review of XRI
> Resolution
> > 2.0.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > =Drummond
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: workgroup_mailer@lists.oasis-open.org
> > [mailto:workgroup_mailer@lists.oasis-open.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:01 PM
> > To: drummond.reed@cordance.net
> > Subject: Groups - oasis - Ballot "XRI Resolution Committee Draft
03" has
> > closed
> >
> > OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) TC member,
> >
> > A ballot presented to OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) TC
has
> > closed.
> > The text of this closed ballot is as follows:
> > ---
> > "XRI Resolution Committee Draft 03"
> > Does the committee approve the XRI Resolution 2.0 Committee Draft 02
> > Revision 04 specification (URI below) as a Committee Draft? If yes,
does
> > the
> > TC also agree to submit the specification for Public Review?
> >
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27432/xri-resolution-
> > V2.0-
> > cd-02-rv-04.pdf
> >
> > This ballot requires a Full Majority Vote to Pass.
> >
> > - Yes
> > - No
> > - Abstain
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Quick Summary of Voting Results:
> > - Yes received 18 Votes
> > - No received 0 Votes
> > - Abstain received 0 Votes
> >
> > 18 of 21 eligible voters cast their vote before the deadline.
> >
> > Voting results for all closed ballots are available on the xri eVote
> > Archive
> > at:
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xri/ballot_archive.php
> >
> > Thank you,
> > OASIS Open Administration
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