OASIS DocBook TC2

Re: Wordsmithing the official vote

  • 1.  Re: Wordsmithing the official vote

    Posted 04-12-2000 19:04
    Ah, the old balloon floating trick, is it? Go for it. Eduardo Norman Walsh wrote: > > [CC'ing Jon for his input] > > / Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net> was heard to say: > Actually, what's being done with the output of the now-closed > Tables TC? That should probably be our guide. I see nothing > in the OASIS library. The old SGML version was a TR. > > At the time we wanted to publish the tables report, Norbert > indicated that the process was't in place for creating a new > TR. I don't know if that's because the Board wasn't ready or > they didn't know how or who would handle voting by the > membership, or what. So we made it a Technical Memorandum. I've > pestered Norbert a couple of times about pushing that TM the > rest of the way through the process, but nothing ever gets > done. (OASIS could make that a service mark :-/). > > Jon has publicly referred to OASIS as a standards body, so I > thought we'd let DocBook be a test case. I'd rather have 4.0 be > a Standard than a Technical Resolution :-) > > Be seeing you, > norm > > -- > Norman Walsh <nwalsh@arbortext.com> In a universe of electrons and > Principal Software Engineer selfish genes, blind physical > Arbortext, Inc. (www.arbortext.com) forces and genetic replication, > 413.256.6985 Voice/FAX some people are going to get > hurt, other people are going to > get lucky, and you won't find any > rhyme or reason in it, nor any > justice.--Richard Dawkins -- Eduardo Gutentag e-mail: eduardo@eng.Sun.COM XML Technology Center Phone: (650) 786-5498 Sun Microsystems Inc. fax: (650) 786-5727