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Re: [office] TC name: proposal for name change

  • 1.  Re: [office] TC name: proposal for name change

    Posted 12-23-2004 22:39
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    Subject: Re: [office] TC name: proposal for name change


    Michael,
    
    Changing the TC name now seems less painful than making all the 
    necessary adjustments later.
    
    +1
    
    Hope you are enjoying the holiday season!
    
    Patrick
    
    
    Michael Brauer wrote:
    > Dear TC members,
    > 
    > when we discussed and agreed the new specification name, we also
    > discussed that it might be reasonable to change the TC name, but agreed
    > to concentrate on the standardization process first. Therefor, we moved
    > the TC name change to a later phase. However, Mary McRae pointed out to
    > me that we run into problems with the "tc:opendocument" ids contained in
    > our namespace URIs if we don't change our TC name before we submit our
    > committee draft for standardization, because the namespace URIs must
    > match the TC name. I therefor would like to propose to change our TC's
    > name to
    > 
    > OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
    > 
    > This name does not only match our specification name, but also uses the
    > same name pattern as many other TC's (like UBL or XACL), that also have
    > a more or less long and verbose name with a short name in parenthesis.
    > 
    > As an option, we could also revert our namespace URIs to contain
    > "tc:openoffice" again. However, this would not only mean that the
    > namespace URIs don't match to the specification name, but also that the
    > namespace URIs would change again if we agree on a TC name change after
    > the standardization of our specification. For these reasons, changing
    > the TC name now seems to be a much better option, at least for me.
    > 
    > Best regards, and a happy holidays season.
    > 
    > Michael
    > 
    > 
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    > 
    
    
    -- 
    Patrick Durusau
    Director of Research and Development
    Society of Biblical Literature
    Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
    Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
    Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
    
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