> From: Lauren Wood [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 February, 2005 13:33
> To: ; Paul Grosso
> Subject: RE: [entity-resolution] minutes from ER TC phone
> call 20050215
>
> On 16 Feb 2005 Paul Grosso wrote:
> > I'm confused.
> >
> > Are we certifying that we are using the Committee Draft
> > or the Committee Specification (which doesn't yet exist)?
>
> Committee Specification is a term that OASIS no longer uses;
I understood it was only shortly gone but now coming back
(it was stupid ever to have removed it).
> the
> product of the TC if it doesn't go to OASIS Standard is the Committee
> Draft.
>
> > I'm assuming that we are certifying that we are using the CD,
> > and that the point of this is to get to CS. But then I'm
> > wondering where the CD is that I'm certifying we're using.
> > The last published document I find on our TC page is a 1.0
> > from over a year ago.
>
> Norm will be publishing the CD that we voted on on Tuesday as soon as
> he has fixed the small mistakes that Tony pointed out, and reverted
> to "id" as the ID attribute name. This is the CD that people should
> certify their companies are using.
I'd like us to double check things. I do not believe we need
to certify that we're using a CD. A CD is just put out for
public review and needs no certification.
I may be confused with the changing status of names in OASIS,
but this does not match what we're doing in the DITA TC, for
example.
paul
> Note that "using" does not
> necessarily imply "using every part of", so given that the CD 1.1 is
> a superset of 1.0, using the 1.0 features of 1.1 is sufficient for
> this certification.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Lauren
>
