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Subject: Minutes of meeting 2000-10-04 18:00-19:00PDT


Meeting 2000-10-04 18:00-19:00PDT
   (Combination teleconference and face-to-face at SIGS XML Conference, San 
Jose)

Roll call and quorum
   Present:
     Lynda VanVleet, Class Integrated Quality, Inc.
     Carmelo Montanez, NIST
     G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd. (chair)
   Present by phone:
     John Evdemon, XMLSolutions
     John Robert Gardner, Sun Microsystems
     Tony Graham, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
     David Marston, Lotus Development Corp.
   Regrets received:  None
   Absent:            None
   Observer:
     Karill Gavrylyuk, Microsoft Corporation
     Crisman Cooley, Overdomain
(Ed's note: Cris (an OASIS member) was in attendance for the entire 
meeting, though he did not speak up; I feel his attendance qualifies this 
as an official observer attendance)

Agenda
- agenda - add discussion about errata
          - web site citation of TC policy
     - motion to accept - Lynda, seconded by JR

Minutes of the last meeting
- review of minutes of September meeting
   - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200009/msg00014.html
   - motion to accept - Carmelo, seconded by David

Reports of standing committees
- no standing committees yet established

Motion to move away from the order of the day - JR, seconded by Lynda

Outstanding action items
  - 20000906-ACT-1: (all) review policy written by JR
     - moved to accept by JR, seconded by Lynda
     - Tony dissenting regarding nature of ambiguity (he is to post his 
concerns)
  - 20000906-ACT-2: (Carmelo/Ken) - repair web site
     - link to TC policy
     - add links to latest version of significant documents of interest for 
public comment
       - test case markup
       - catalogue of vague
       - catalogue of discretionary items
     - name of the comment mail list to be added to committee page
     - name of the FTP depository directory to be added to committee page
  - 20000906-ACT-3: (David) examine Michael Kay's test cases for incorporation
     - adds 100-200 hundred tests
     - workload issue to take them and catalogue them
     - Lynda will look at cataloguing Michael's tests
  - 20000906-ACT-4: (JR) take responsibility for Sun test case submission
     - all okay
  - 20000906-ACT-5: (Carmelo) take responsibility for NIST test case submission
     - all okay
  - 20000906-ACT-6: (David) take responsibility for IBM test case submissions
     - all okay
  - 20000906-ACT-7: (David) model and prototype submitter documents
     - in progress
  - 20000906-ACT-8: (Tony) model and prototype XML report and exclusion 
instance, working with David's results
  - 20000906-ACT-9: (Carmelo) model and prototype rendition control 
instance and XHTML production working with Tony's results
  - 20000906-ACT-10: (Ken) contact OASIS re: namespace URI assignment policy
     - no response from OASIS
     - Ken to post suggestion
  - 20000906-ACT-11: (David) word policy regarding accommodating vagueness 
of the Recommendations
     - covered by JR policy
     - summary of resolved issues to be posted
     - individual postings for unresolved issues
  - 20000301-ACT-1: (Ken) request write-only FTP address at OASIS
     - done
  - 20000301-ACT-3: (John) contact extensibility for any possible test files
     - CTO and Senior Architect have been contacted

Agenda items
  - David - catalogue of vague
            - 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200009/msg00029.html
          - comparing output
            - 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200009/msg00032.html
          - Canonical XML
            - 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200009/msg00035.html
  - publishing of discretionary processor features
    - suggested we need proactive stance to ask developers to identify 
their answers to the discretionary items
    - publish the discretionary item list to the OASIS site
    - invitation to submit developers' answers to the public comment list
    - use an XML model to have the questions answered by vendors
    - catalogue of the vendor's most recent post of their configuration 
instance for reference purposes
  - new standing committee
    - comparing output and role of Canonical XML - Lynda, Carmelo
    - formal motion - JR, seconded by Carmelo
    - although discussions will be held on the list, Lynda and Carmelo will 
not be awaiting responses from other members of the main committee, though 
we are welcome to interject as we see fit
  - OASIS-supplied pointers to content of recommendations through doctored 
documents
    - Ken to raise topic again on the maillist and highlight documents
    - Karill to forward suggestions for clipboard access to Ken
  - Karill
    - Microsoft willing to provide test cases for XSLT
  - Tony
    - 4XSLT has test cases - they've been directed to use the depository

New and old action items for next meeting
  - 20000906-ACT-7: (David) model and prototype submitter documents
  - 20000906-ACT-8: (Tony) model and prototype XML report and exclusion 
instance, working with David's results
  - 20000906-ACT-9: (Carmelo) model and prototype rendition control 
instance and XHTML production working with Tony's results
  - 20001004-ACT-1: (Carmelo) web site changes per discussion in meeting 
(including underscoring on the home page that we do not compete with the W3C)

Next meeting draft agenda
   - continue with action items; David anxious for feedback

Acknowledgements
   - many thanks to Sun for providing teleconference facility
   - many thanks to SIGS/101communications for meeting space and speaker 
phone and long distance charges

Adjournment


--
G. Ken Holman                    mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com
Crane Softwrights Ltd.             http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/
Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0   +1(613)489-0999   (Fax:-0995)
Web site: XSL/XML/DSSSL/SGML services, training, libraries, products.
Book: Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN1-894049-05-5
Article:          What is XSLT? http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/08/holman
Next public instructor-led training:        2000-11-06/07,2000-11-12,
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