OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC

Balloting for OASIS Standard - DITA V1.2

  • 1.  Balloting for OASIS Standard - DITA V1.2

    Posted 11-16-2010 19:02
    To OASIS Members:

    On 1 November 2010 review materials were sent out for the following Committee Specification that has been submitted for consideration as an OASIS Standard:

    Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.2 

    Documents:
    HTML: 
    http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/cs01/spec/DITA1.2-spec.html 
    PDF: 
    http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/cs01/spec/DITA1.2-spec.pdf 
    DTDs: 
    http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/cs01/dtd1.2/ 
    Schema: 
    http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/cs01/DITA-1.2-xsds/

    This Committee Specification was approved by the TC and was subject to a required 60-day public review. Afterwards, the review materials were sent out to the membership of OASIS for the required 15-day familiarization period. Those materials can be found at:

    As the required review and familiarization periods have now been completed, it is time to vote. I am sending out a Call For Vote to the voting representatives of each organizational member of OASIS. The applicable process rules can be found at:
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2009-07-30.php#OASISstandard

    The minimum number of affirmative votes required to approve this ballot is 49 (15% of 325).

    As each OASIS organizational member has only one vote, participants should give their input to their organization's voting representative. If you don't know the identity of your organization's voting representative is, go to the My Account page at
    http://www.oasis-open.org/members/user_tools

    then select the link for View Company Roster, then look for the name designated as "Primary".

    The ballot can be viewed at:


    Mary P McRae
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