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Subject: MEETING MINUTES -- 01 Feb 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
MEETING MINUTES -- 01 Feb 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
*** Please see Action Items and Decision Summary at the end ***
** Agenda **
------------
1. Roll call
2. Review/approve minutes from 25 January
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200501/msg00066.html
3. Status of remaining contingent items:
- 051 Update Lang Ref for @scale
- 069 List of modules that have a revised PI (covered last
week?)
- 070 Namespace names for DTDs and agendas (covered last week?)
- 075 Contact McRae for OASIS string for PIs
- 077 Prepare DTDs and Schemas (format)
4. Review the TC Specification process:
-
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#standards_approval
- Committee Draft (open period--over when we are ready)
- signals close of a development cycle
- 2/3s of TC voting, no more than 1/4 disapproval
- Inform OASIS Administration
- can be several review/ballot cycles (conformance to
OASIS templates, integration of parts)
- Public Review (1 month total time to exit)
- initiate by majority vote of the TC
- announce to members list, other public lists; 30 days
(can start at any time)
- review again if substantive changes; re-approve as CD
before submission to OASIS
- Member Approval (1 month total time to exit)
- prepare checklist, transmittal materials
- in by 15th of the month; decision to proceed by end of
month
- in Member review for 15 days; in vote for next 15 days
- Becomes immediate Standard if at least 15% pro votes,
no nay votes (other qualifications)
- "Committee Specification" was part of old OASIS
process--signal of readiness for use
5. Assessment: readiness for Committee Draft
- Core Specification status
- DTD/Schema status
- Language Reference
6. If in consent to do so, do the first CD vote.
7. AOB?
** Minutes **
-------------
1. Roll call
- We have 13/20 --> QUORUM
2. Review/approve minutes from 25 January
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200501/msg00066.html
- Minutes approved by acclamation.
3. Status of remaining contingent items:
- 051 Update Lang Ref for @scale
- DONE.
- Don added a paragraph to the attribute description for
@scale in the language reference.
- 069 List of modules that have a revised PI (covered last
week?)
- CLOSED.
- 070 Namespace names for DTDs and agendas (covered last week?)
- Pending -- Don and Eric Sirois will apply the
committee's decision to the Schemas and DTD
- 075 Contact McRae for OASIS string for PIs
- Pending
- 077 Prepare DTDs and Schemas (format)
- Lots of discussion about whether to use verbose
comments within the DTDs/Schemas, or to pull it out
and keep it in one place (language reference).
- It was decided to take the discussion offline to the
mailing list.
- Action Required for Deborah Lapeyre -- Apply the
consensus decision to the next round of edited DTDs
4. Review the TC Specification process:
-
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#standards_approval
- Discussion -- Can we have this ready for voting on
next week?
5. Assessment: readiness for Committee Draft
- No time -- will continue here next meeting
6. If in consent to do so, do the first CD vote.
- No time -- will continue here next meeting
7. AOB?
- No time for this
** Summary of Decisions **
--------------------------
- None
** Action Required **
---------------------
*** NOTE: Action Items and Issues to be Resolved required for the
1.0 spec are marked with ">>>".
022 Don, Michael -- Put together a "self-study" tutorial/demo,
as per JoAnn's comments regarding the DITA sessions. Still
pending as of 7/20/04.
051 055 Don Day, 9/7/04 -- Take the discussion of @scale
attribute and related issues to the list (presentation
mechanisms). (merge with next...) >>> 1/25/05 -- Don will
update the language reference to include this discussion.
>>> 2/1/05 -- Don added a paragraph to the attribute
description for @scale in the language reference. CLOSED.
062 Eric Sirois, 10/05/04 -- provide XSLT validation for
specialized schemas once developed (Indi recommends Jarno to
work with him) >>> 1/25/05 -- this will be an ongoing
project; the 1.0 spec does not depend on this.
>>> 069 Don will provide a list of each of the modules that have
a revised pi. >>> 1/25/05 -- Still open, it is in the
1/25/05 agenda. >>> 2/1/05 -- CLOSED.
>>> 070 Erik please put together proposal for Ns for dtds and
modules (if necessary) for Michael. >>> 1/25/05 -- This is
also in the 1/25/05 agenda. >>> 2/1/05 -- Don added
a paragraph to the attribute description for @scale in the
language reference.
>>> 075 Don, 1/18/05 -- Contact Mary Macrae to get the proper OASIS
string to put into public identifiers. >>> 1/25/05 in
progress. The 1.0 draft does depend on this! >>> 2/1/05
-- Still pending.
>>> 077 Don, 1/25/05 -- Ask Deborah Lapeyre if the DTDs and Schemas
will be ready for voting next week.
NEW 078 Deborah Lapeyre, 2/1/05 -- Take discussion of DTD comments
to the list, and apply the consensus decision to the next
round of edited DTDs.
079 (placeholder for next)
** Issues to be Resolved **
---------------------------
*** NOTE: Action Items and Issues to be Resolved required for the
1.0 spec are marked with ">>>".
>>> 006 All -- Should DITA specialization mechanism be documented in
a separate specification in order to make it easier to use
in other XML applications that otherwise have no
relationship to topic-based writing? >>> Ongoing. >>>
11/30/04: - add to spec issues list
009 "Best Practices" document -- Let's put this on the agenda
for future discussion.
010 Relationship between DITA and other topic-based
architectures (such as S1000D) -- Need to incorporate this
into the "Best Practices" document.
012 (placeholder for next)
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