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    3rd Face to Face - Washington D.C. has been modified by Tony Jewtushenko (tony.jewtushenko@oracle.com).
    
    Date:  Friday, 12 December 2003
    Time:  08:00am - 12:00pm Eastern Time
    
    Event Description:
    
    
    Agenda:
    3rd XLIFF TC Face to Face Meeting,  in conjunction with the LISA Forum USA
        http://www.lisa.org/events/2003dc/
    
    _______________________________________________________________________________________________
    Date: Friday,  12 December 2003
    Time: 8am - 12 noon
    Venue: Hyatt Regency Hotel Capital Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW,  
    Washington, D.C. 20001 USA
    Hotel website: http://washingtonregency.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml
    
    _______________________________________________________________________________________________
    Dial-up instructions:  to be communicated later
    Note:  No video conference facility for this meeting
    
    _______________________________________________________________________________________________
    Agenda:
    8:00:   Welcome,  introductions,  agenda tweak, etc.
    
    8:05    Summary of XLIFF TC achievements since last F2F
                 1.1 Committee Specification and XSD
                 Standardised XLIFF presentation
                 1.1 Whitepaper
                 1.1 Website FAQ
                 1.1 Peer Review
                 Adoption by vendor/publisher communities
    
    8:15    XLIFF 1.1 complimentary work
              Canonical Representation Guide:
                    -resource profiles
                       agree to list of resources
                       assign owners to individual resources
                       agree to schedule of deliverables
                    -"cookbook" examples
                       Sketch out contents at a high level
                       assign owners to major sections
              Implementation Guides
                    best practices for developing proprietary filters
                    case studies for mapping proprietary resource to XLIFF
                    working with Web Services
    
    9:30    Post Mortem of XLIFF 1.1 spec process
              Industry perception of XLIFF
              What went well
              What didn't go well
              Suggestions for improvement
              Improvement Implementation Plan
    
    10:00   Break
    
    10:15   What's next?
              Conclude standards submission process
                 -blocking issues
              Discuss post 1.1 options (once complimentary work is done)
                 -Place TC in holding pattern with bi-monthly or quarterly 
    meetings
                 -Conclude XLIFF TC - with option to restart if / when needed
                 -"Clarify" charter to extend TC's work to XLIFF 1.x / 2.0
                 -Other suggestions
    
    11:30   Review action item assignments, and any items in the "unresolved 
    issues bucket"
    
    Noon    Break for, or work through lunch,  depending upon progress.
    
    12:45   Adjourn meeting
    
    
    
    Minutes:
    Attendees:
    DC: Tony, Yves, Shigemichi, John
    Tel: Mat, Enda, David, Gerard
    
    Observers: Andzrej Zydron, Kara Warburton, Dave Walters, Arle Lommel
    
    Agenda:
    8:00:   Welcome,  introductions,  agenda tweak, etc.
    
     
     no tweaks
     
    
    8:05    Summary of XLIFF TC achievements since last F2F
                 1.1 Committee Specification and XSD
                 Standardised XLIFF presentation
                 1.1 Whitepaper
                 1.1 Website FAQ
                 1.1 Peer Review
                 Adoption by vendor/publisher communities
    
     
    Tony listed the following implementations:
        - RWS: Utilities to extract to XLIFF; Rainbow; various XLIFF XSLT,
    etc.
        - Alchemy Catalyst 5.0, visual XLIFF editor in separate module
        - XML.Intl: editing support
        - Heartsome: online XLIFF editor
        - SDL: XML filter, needs target to be populated
        - Trados: none but tageditor
        - Passolo: visual XLIFF editor in a free downloadable module
        - Bowne: Elcano
        - Oracle: Hyperhub, internal editor
    
    
    8:15    XLIFF 1.1 complimentary work
              Canonical Representation Guide:
                    -resource profiles
                       agree to list of resources
                       assign owners to individual resources
                       agree to schedule of deliverables
                    -"cookbook" examples
                       Sketch out contents at a high level
                       assign owners to major sections
              Implementation Guides
                    best practices for developing proprietary filters
                    case studies for mapping proprietary resource to XLIFF
                    working with Web Services
    
     
     Tony presented a list from Mat: 
       - asp 
       - html 
       - javaclass 
       - javapropertyresourcebundle 
       - javaproperetyresource 
       - javascript 
       - resx 
       - rtf 
       - winres 
       - plaintext 
       - xml
     Additionally we discussed:
       - baml (binary blob in resx)
       - xaml
       - msi
       - inf
    
    
     It was pointed out that the winres spec had been worked on and was
    close to completion. Also, Catalyst & Passolo had implemented based on
    that work. There was some discussion about whether to just do generic
    guidelines of objects/types regardless of source format or do a
    representation for each. It was suggested that we do both the generic
    dialog representation with file format specific canonical representation
    that conformed to the generic guidelines. It was agreed to start with
    win32 work as a basis for the generic since so much has already been
    done. John will forward his latest work to the group; Gerard will
    compare that with resx; Tony will look at Java Resource Bundles. That
    spec will be made generic and get rid of winres specific names.
    
     html and rtf are markup langugaes and don't lend themselves to the
    same representations. Thus, separate work would need to be carried on
    for these formats. It was agreed to do this in parallel. Tony will ask
    Bryan and Doug if they would llike to work on these.
    
     Since javaclass is an un-i18n file, John vehemently opposed doing
    anything with this format. There was some concensus on this point.
    
     java resource bundles should be able to map to the generic type work
    we are doing. Tony will compare them with the winres spec.
    
    
    The initially presented list morphed into the following list of issues:
    
    	Generic objects: 
    		Dialogs,  Forms
    		Menus
    		String Tables,  Messages
    		Markup with inline tags (e.g., RTF, HTML Tags)
    		Etc.
    
    	asp
    	HTML, rtf (Bryan,  Doug?)
    	javaresourcebundle (list, property) Tony
    	javascript
    	Resx � Gerard ->  Enda
    		XAML
    		BAML
    	winres  - almost finished but missing Markup.  John to send out updated version
    	msi,  inf (examples)
    	Embedded XLIFF in XML (examples)
    	Skeleton File 
    
    
     
    
    9:30    Post Mortem of XLIFF 1.1 spec process
              Industry perception of XLIFF 
    
     
    Tony reported that at the recent LRC, XLIFF was mentioned negatively by
    2 separate tool vendors. The problems reported are that there is no
    clear representation of resources and publishers (clients) are asking
    for it with unrealistic expectations of what it can do and the vendors
    ability to handle it.
     
    
              What went well
    
     
    XLIFF reached the committee specification level.
    In 1.1 we added extensibility through the namespace mechanism.
     
    
              What didn't go well
    
     
    1. Attendance has been a problem, Tony is being forced to follow Oasis
    rules, which will move inactive voting members to observer status.
    2. Gerard mentioned that drafting vs. issue resolution was 50-50 and
    should have been 80-20.
    3. Members not prepared at meetings.
    4. Ineffective use of mailing list, use more rather than phone 
    5. Proposal process has been too easy, this led to constant changes
    with little time to investigate the ramifications.
    6. Couldn't make major changes because it was a point release.
     
    
              Suggestions for improvement
              Improvement Implementation Plan
    
    10:00   Break
    
    10:15   What's next?
              Conclude standards submission process
                 -blocking issues
    
     
      - address errata
      - collect more input
      - complete 1.1 specification work in January '04.
      - need certification of 1.1 use from 3 Oasis members
      - Oracle needs legal approval for their certification
      - Tony will approach Connect (Steven Flinter)
     
    
              Discuss post 1.1 options (once complimentary work is done)
                 -Place TC in holding pattern with bi-monthly or quarterly
    
    meetings
                 -Conclude XLIFF TC - with option to restart if / when
    needed
                 -"Clarify" charter to extend TC's work to XLIFF 1.x / 2.0
                 -Other suggestions
    
     
      - L10n directive: (Shigemichi, Gerard) in XLIFF
      - SKL file issues
      - Andzrej has proposal specific to XML
      - It may be premature to decide what we'll do wwhen finished since 
     
    
    11:30   Review action item assignments, and any items in the
    "unresolved 
    issues bucket"
    
     
    * Monthly meeting instead of weekly.
    * Kara Warburton reported the following issues:
       1. mrk has too much info in the mtype (it is overloaded), should be
    2 elements: term and mrk
          IBM
        should be 
          IBM
       We cannot use tbx namespace here because  does not allow
    extension points
       2. state-qualifier has the same issue .... 
       3. Wwe need a glossary in the spec of esoteric and obscure terms
       4. editorial needs
         - descriptions are totally useless
         - need examples
     
    
    Noon    Break for, or work through lunch,  depending upon progress.
    
    12:45   Adjourn meeting
    
    
    
    ACTION ITEMS:
    1. John will forward the latest Novell Formats specification, with
    winres, java properties, and others, after passing it through legal.
    (Due: 03/12/19)
    2. Tony will ask Brian & Doug to look at html & rtf. (Due: 03/12/19)
    3. Gerard & Enda will review resx to determine if the winres spec
    satisfies those requirements. (Due: 04/1/16 [dialogs first])
    4. Tony will review java resource bundles to determine if the winres
    spec satisfies those requirements. (Due: 04/1/16 [dialogs first])
    5. John will review java properties to determine if the winres spec
    satisfies those requirements. (Due: 04/1/16 [dialogs first])
    6. John will create a template for the formal proposal process. (Due:
    04/1/16)
    7. Tony will create a change mgmt process. (Due: 04/1/16)
    
    
    
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