Re: [xslt-conformance] Spreading the Work

[Carmelo Montanez <carmelo@nist.gov>]

Hi All:

    That statement is one of the "missing" things from our page.  I will be
submitting that
and other things to OASIS for addition to our page.

Carmelo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eduardo Gutentag" <eduardo.gutentag@sun.com>
To: "Lofton Henderson" <lofton@rockynet.com>
Cc: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>;
<xslt-conformance@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [xslt-conformance] Spreading the Work


> Lofton,
>
> from a procedural point of view, the product of OASIS TCs should carry a
copyright
> that allows for "stealing" (their words ;-)
> (see http://oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.shtml)
> as long as the copyright and OASIS's name are preserved.
>
> I don't see that copyright notice in what is visible through the XSLT's
home
> page at OASIS (under the one you mentioned, "5. Documents") so I'm not
sure
> what the status is in this case.
>
> Ken, you might want to consult with Karl as to what is appropriate in this
> case, or you might consider slapping the right copyright notice on the
available
> product of the TC
>
> Eduardo
>
> Lofton Henderson wrote:
> >
> > Ken et al,
> >
> > Some background and a question...
> >
> > Background.
> >
> > Lest you or some other TC members start to get questions about the TC
work
> > from unexpected directions, I should let you know that I have been
> > evangelizing.  Well, not exactly ... but wearing my W3C QA hat, I have
been
> > both working towards a conformance framework "primer" document, and
> > advising at least one group about how to get started on its test suite
project.
> >
> > In the latter category is UAAG.  In both cases, I consider our
genericized
> > XSLT processes and framework to be one of a very few good approaches --
> > comprehensive, end-to-end, and reasonably automatable -- that can be
looked
> > at and even picked up (in parts or in whole) by others.
> >
> > Question.
> >
> > The question was asked, "can we borrow from the XSLT work?"  My opinion
> > was, "not a problem".  This seems implied by section 2.1 on our home
page
> > (which btw has a dead link on "completed products").
> >
> > But I said that I'd verify that the XSLT TC has no problems with it.  I
> > have indicated that a first "pilot" public release is pending (I hope
this
> > was also okay), aimed at progressing toward the assembly of the XSLT
suite.
> >
> > Btw, one thing that is particularly appealing to UAAG is our handling of
> > discretion.  UAAG 1.0 (CR draft) has a conformance space where
optionality
> > or discretion is pervasive, for how UAs may meet
> > checkpoints/guidelines.  Therefore, they were pretty keen on the concept
of
> > per-UA customizable suites, to match the particular accessability
solutions
> > chosen by the individual UAs.
> >
> > -Lofton.
> >
> > Bit of exchange with Ian, W3C team contact for UAAG...
> >
> > >Sender: ian@w3.org
> > >Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:12:18 -0400
> > >From: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>
> > >Organization: W3C
> > >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686)
> > >X-Accept-Language: en
> > >To: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
> > >Subject: Re: minutes of 22-23 f2f meeting
> > >X-RCPT-TO: <lofton@rockynet.com>
> > >
> > >Lofton Henderson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [...] I intend to email the TC and inform them of my ad-hoc
> > > > speaking on the TC work.  I'll invite any comments about others
borrowing
> > > > the work. -LH.
> > >
> > >Tell them we intend to steal heavily from them. ;)
> > >
> > >  _ Ian
> > >
> > >--
> > >Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)   http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
> > >Tel:                     +1 718 260-9447
> >
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