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OpenDocuemnt TC Work Call Minutes 2006-12-11

  • 1.  OpenDocuemnt TC Work Call Minutes 2006-12-11

    Posted 12-14-2006 16:39
    Rollcall
    
    Helen Yue, IBM
    Ma Yue, IBM
    Robert Weir, IBM
    Patric Durusau
    David Faure, KDE
    Jody Goldberg, Novell
    Florian Reuter, Novell
    Michael Brauer. Sun Microsystems
    Lars Oppermann, Sun Microsystems
    Gary Edwards, OpenDocument Foundation
    
    
    Minutes
    The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes from the last
    work call.
    
    Action items
    lars, check docbook for index
    -> no index formatting in docbook
    
    Discussion
    index (pp, ff...),
    leave attribute as ...-pp and change example to ff and update explaining
    text. change example to ff
    Lars: now might be the time to fix the attribute name
    Michael: its not such a significant glitch as to justify an 
    incompatible change
    Lars: ok...
    Michael, I will send out a proposal for changing the example and text.
    
    Password hash values for protected sections
    Michael: SHA1 is used today, which has been shown to be broken
       refer to XML encr. (W3C) for usable algorithms
    Jody: when loading excel and saving odf. we cannot include the excel
    hashed password right now in an interoperable way, I would like to
    include a reference to the excel hash algorithm. How can we do that
    Michael: don't know whether we may reference it directly
    Jody: the algorithm is published in the ecma spec
    Lars: adding a URI for this in our spec would be the most pargmatic way
    of solving this - as long as there is no legal problem in referring to
    the ecma documentation
    Michael: we should look for guidance from OASIS as how to references the
    ecma spec
    Patrick. there may be other things in the ecma standard that we might
    want to reference, e.g. border specification
    MaYue: why would we want to reference it
    Rob: we don't want to copy the 4 pages of spec
    MaYue. but there are other algorithms which we should allow too
    Rob: we need a shared name to refer to a specific algorithm
    Michael, to raise it with OASIS
    Jody, ask ecma for a URI
    Rob, I will try to get a legal opinion as well
    Michael, nice to have, but not required to add the actual URI
    
    Language tags
    Michael: Eike working on proposal
       current (2) list proposals,
       differ on how different styles are used within the list (override vs. ID)
    David: most people involved in the discussion are not currently here on
    the call, so we should keep the discussion to the list...
    
    Michael: those were all items for which we have proposals
    Michael: two updates:
       I sent out request for 1.1 standard voting
       no feedback as of yet, but I have faith that OASIS is acting on it
       Patricj reviewed language improvements for 1.2 which I am currently
    integrating into the specification document
       I will clean up chapter numbering next according to ISO rules...
    
    
    
    -- 
    Lars Oppermann