[xliff] Minutes of the XLIFF TC February 5th. 2002

Minutes 
of the XLIFF TC February 5th. 2002

1/ 
Roll call
Present: John Corrigan, Ian Dunlop, Tony Jewtushenko, Christian Lieske, David 
Leland, John Reid, Mark Levins, Mat Lovatt, Milan Karasek, Peter Reynolds, Reinhard Schaler, Yves 
Savourel, Enda McDonnell, Ultan 
O'Broin 
Observers: Eric D. 
Friedman, Jamie Currmanaca
Apologies: Jonathan 
Clarke

2/ Discussion 
of submitted work.
Tony introduced a discussion on the draft 
specification which was submitted to the TC. There was a debate on whether to 
accept this specification as the committee specification or whether to have a 
consultation period. Concerns were raised about interoperability caused by the 
inclusion of the <prop> element. It was also felt that there could be 
backward compatibility issues. It was suggested that extending the debate on the 
draft specification would lengthen the time taken before it is published, 
considerable work had been done by those who submitted the specification and 
people within the localisation industry were already doing work with XLIFF.
A 
motion stating that the draft specification be accepted as the committee 
specification was proposed by John Reid and seconded by Reinhard 
Schaler. The vote was carried by 11 votes for the motion, 1 against and 1 
abstention.
It was agreed that a decision on submitting this 
specification as an Oasis standard would be taken at a later 
stage.

3/ 
Sub-committees
It was agreed that all sub-committee will publish 
their agendas and minutes to the group mailing list and members of the TC will 
be allowed attend sub-committees.
Schema Sub-committee
A 
sub-committee to draft the XLIFF schema was established. The following 
agreed to join: David Leland, John Corrigan, Edna McDonnel, Yves Savourel, Eric 
Freeman and Christian Lieske. Enda will chair this sub-committee. This group 
will meet before the next meeting of the TC and will decide on its 
schedule.
Interoperability Sub-Committee
A sub-committee 
to look at issues relating to interoperability was established. The following 
agreed to join: John Reid, Marc Levins, Eric Freeman, Matt Lovett and John 
Corrigan.
Conformance Sub-committee
Reinhard has 
submitted a proposal to the TC for a Conformance sub-committee and this was 
agreed with the following joining: Reinhard Schaler, Enda McDonnell, Peter 
Reynolds, Tony Jewtushenko and John Reid. Reinhard is to chair this 
sub-committee. 
Tony pointed out that Oasis does not have a mechanism for 
this and concerns were raised that there might be legal challenges from those 
who were judged not to have conformed.
It was agreed that a major part of 
this sub-committees work would be to decide on conformance and what it means to 
conform to the XLIFF standard. 
As the meeting went below quorum at this 
point, it was agreed that the charter proposed by Reinhard would be discussed at 
the next meeting.

4/ Other 
organisation
Yves attended a W3C meeting which looked at 
Internationalisation issues. He has reported on this to the mailing list in a 
mail sent February 5th.
The LISA conference to be held in March have asked 
for participants from this group.

5/ The meeting was 
adjourned.
Next Meeting: February 19th. 
2002

 

Peter Reynolds, Software Development Manager, Berlitz GlobalNET
3, 
West Pier Business Campus, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland 
Tel: 
+353-1-202-1280
Fax: +353-1- 202-1299
Web Site: 
http//www.berlitzglobalnet.com 
"Don't just translate it, 
BerlitzIT" http//www.berlitzIT.com