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Subject: RE: Processing DIS 29500 (OOXML)
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I was thinking of a blog for both our discussions and for online
comments. But I'm also thinking of it as a collaboration tool -- I would
expect the results to then be captured in something like an ODF template
as you've proposed. I'm not sure public comments should make it into the
collective record until they've been read and assimilated. And perhaps
they could be tagged at that point? But a WIKI might be a better answer.
But you're right -- these solutions all require app development and
hosting.
 
Steve
 
 

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From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:55 AM
To: Steve Carton
Cc: Dave Welsh; Doug Mahugh; Frank Farance; Jerry Smith; Jon Bosak;
Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E; Price, Lynne; Mason, James David
(MXM); Norm Walsh; patrick@durusau.net; Rex Jaeschke; Richard Barber;
Ron Silletti; Tim Schoechle
Subject: RE: Processing DIS 29500 (OOXML)



Blogs for our discussions or public comments?  I know blog posts can be
tagged, and that could be used to categorize a post by section or topic.
But in the blogging systems I've seen don't allow response documents to
be similarly tagged, so this would limit its usefulness for processing
public comments. 

Maybe a Wiki?   

The important thing is to have something that encodes the data model
implied by the comment template, as well as some metata data that
reflects our committee's work (who entered, date entered, committee
decision, date of committee decision).  This could be done by: 


*	Mailing around XML documents that encode the above.  Fine for
us, but not for public comments. 
*	A mailing list where we have another convention for encoding
this data, like Patrick's "pd:1:11.3.1 Alternative Format Import Part".
Again, the public won't get this right. 
*	An online web site, blog, wiki, XForms, whatever, something that
will validate input and output in correct format. Of course, this will
require some app dev work and hosting work.


I think whatever we do we'll need to assume that public comments will
break all rules we make, will be misformatted, miscategorized, etc.  So
we should assume that we'll need to rekey them to get them to fit within
our data model.  So if we need todo this always, maybe we just send
around XML documents ourselves? 

-Rob 




"Steve Carton" <steve.carton@retrievalsystems.com> 

04/04/2007 09:30 AM 

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"Dave Welsh" <dave.welsh@microsoft.com>, "Doug Mahugh"
<Doug.Mahugh@microsoft.com>, "Frank Farance" <frank@farance.com>, "Jerry
Smith" <jerry.smith@disa.mil>, "Jon Bosak" <jon.bosak@sun.com>, "Levine,
Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E" <Leonard.Levine@disa.mil>, "Price, Lynne"
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RE: Processing DIS 29500 (OOXML)

	




I wonder -- would a BLOG style of communication/interaction be
appropriate here? 
  
Steve 


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From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:27 AM
To: patrick@durusau.net
Cc: Dave Welsh; Doug Mahugh; Frank Farance; Jerry Smith; Jon Bosak;
Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E; Price, Lynne; Mason, James David
(MXM); Norm Walsh; Rex Jaeschke; Richard Barber; Ron Silletti; Steve
Carton; Tim Schoechle
Subject: Re: Processing DIS 29500 (OOXML)


A lot to think of here. 

To your list I'd add a private web page or ftp site for posting large
documents, such as related ISO standards, or even the DIS 29500
materials linked to in this ballot, which I understand is different than
the version submitted to JTC1 originally.   So we all need access to the
current materials. 

As for public comments, we definitely should think about how to do this
efficiently.  I know that other NB's were inundated with comments, often
to their business or personal email addresses.  If we can avoid the
chaos while at the same time being responsive to the public, this would
be preferred.  Whether we want it or not, public comments will come.
The question is whether we want to take steps now to make this a more
orderly process? 

Are you able to get to ISO_CommentsTemplate.zip, which is the template
for entering comments?  I'd recommend that we submit our final comments
in ODF if possible.  We can map the data model of the template to
conventions for the email comments, such as your "pd:1:11.3.1
Alternative Format Import Part" example, and generate the ODF document
automatically from the email comments. 

-Rob 
___________________________

Rob Weir
Software Architect
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
IBM Software Group

email: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
phone: 1-978-399-7122
blog: http://www.robweir.com/blog/ 


Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> 

04/04/2007 08:29 AM 

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patrick@durusau.net



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"Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E" <Leonard.Levine@disa.mil>, Tim
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Subject
Processing DIS 29500 (OOXML)


	





Greetings!

As I noted in my post yesterday, we have until June 17, 2007 to prepare 
the recommended position on DIS 29500.

Having slept on it I have some more specific suggestions on how we 
should proceed.

1. Obviously we need a mail reflector for V1 members. I will talk to 
Frank Farance about this but I do have a question:

Should we have a public archive of our discussions?

My personal opinion is yes since the ISO standards process is supposed 
to be "transparent." I take that to mean that the discussions in that 
process should be available to anyone who wants to see them.

2. Do we need a public list for the submission of comments from members 
of the public?

OASIS has such lists and I can attest that they have been helpful any 
number of times in finding bugs in standards.

I am less certain that we need an email list in the traditional sense 
because feelings are running high enough on all sides to make an open 
list too much traffic to be useful.

On the other hand, a widely publicized webpage for comments that forces 
choice of a part and section, so that the comments can be automatically 
sorted could be really useful. I don't have any illusions about our 
committee being able to review every nook and cranny of DIS 29500.

The results from such a webpage should be public for the same reasons as

the proposed discussion list for the committee.

3. Comments by V1 Members

I have reviewed the membership list and at least at this point we all 
appear to have unique initials.

My suggestion on comments is that we use the subject line to contain our

initials, followed by a colon, followed by the part, colon and then the 
section number and heading of the portion of OOXML we are commenting on.

Thus,

pd:1:11.3.1 Alternative Format Import Part

That will be very helpful in terms of marshalling all the comments and 
responses on a particular section for discussion.

I don't have a definitive date on the OOXML topic map that my handlers 
are preparing under my direction and I don't want to wait until that is 
certain one way or the other to setup mechanisms for our discussions. If

the software proves useful for the committee, we can always import any 
data we have generated by that point anyway.

4. Processing comments and developing the US recommended position

I think we need a two-stage process for the development of the US 
recommended position.

a. We need to process the comments and decide if we accept the comments,

without deciding on what impact any particular comment has on the 
ultimate recommended position. That will enable us to develop a basis on

which to formulate our ultimate position.

b. After processing of our comments, then we use those comments as the 
basis for our recommendation on the US position.

5. Sharing V1 comments with other NBs.

The formulation of the recommended US position may or may not include 
comments. However, I would like to suggest that as we develop our 
position on particular comments, I would like to share those with other 
NBs. Given the size and complexity of the proposal, being aware of our 
comments may cause other NBs to develop comments on areas that we have 
not had time to consider.

6. Evaluation and adoption of comments

I really don't know how many comments we are going to generate as V1 
members nor how many comments will appear from members of the public.

There are several ways we can process the comments.

Although I distrust wikis, it might not be a bad idea to post the 
comments to a wiki where only V1 members could vote and we can both 
comment as well as indicate our vote of yes or no on each issue. From 
what I understand of Drupal, it has the ability to control who votes and

to show the results of the votes.

In the absence of the soon to appear topic map software that might be a 
better processing model than what I have suggested above.

Noting that in any event I will have to use the INCITS comment template 
to prepare whatever comments are accepted by the committee to be 
included with the ballot results reflecting our ultimate position.

I am not opposed to having weekly teleconferences, say on Fridays, to 
discuss a given set of comments.

7. Recommendation (yes, you were looking for this part)

I suspect that as we near the end of the process we are going to need a 
face to face meeting to go over the final set of comments accepted by 
the committee and to develop our recommendation.

Not knowing how many comments we will accept or the nature of those 
comments, it is hard for me to say how long such a meeting would last.

I do think that we need to have teleconferencing facilities so any 
members who cannot physically attend can be present for the meeting.

Noting that the ballot is due on 17 June 2007, might we consider having 
a face to face starting on the 14th or 15th of June?

By that point we should have a set of comments that have been agreed 
upon by V1 and I assume that we will want to refine those and develop 
our final recommendation.

Thoughts? Comments?

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Patrick@Durusau.net
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005

Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! 





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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=378420314-04042007><FONT face=Arial 
color=#0000ff size=2>I was thinking of a blog for both our discussions and for 
online comments. But I'm also thinking of it as a collaboration tool -- I would 
expect the results to then be captured in something like an ODF template as 
you've proposed. I'm not sure public comments should make it into the collective 
record until they've been read and assimilated. And perhaps they could be tagged 
at that point? But a WIKI might be a better answer. But you're right -- these 
solutions all require app development and hosting.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=378420314-04042007><FONT face=Arial 
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=378420314-04042007><FONT face=Arial 
color=#0000ff size=2>Steve</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> robert_weir@us.ibm.com 
[mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:55 
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Steve Carton<BR><B>Cc:</B> Dave Welsh; Doug Mahugh; Frank 
Farance; Jerry Smith; Jon Bosak; Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E; Price, Lynne; 
Mason, James David (MXM); Norm Walsh; patrick@durusau.net; Rex Jaeschke; Richard 
Barber; Ron Silletti; Tim Schoechle<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Processing DIS 29500 
(OOXML)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Blogs for our discussions or public 
comments? &nbsp;I know blog posts can be tagged, and that could be used to 
categorize a post by section or topic. &nbsp;But in the blogging systems I've 
seen don't allow response documents to be similarly tagged, so this would limit 
its usefulness for processing public comments.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT 
face=sans-serif size=2>Maybe a Wiki? &nbsp;</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif 
size=2>The important thing is to have something that encodes the data model 
implied by the comment template, as well as some metata data that reflects our 
committee's work (who entered, date entered, committee decision, date of 
committee decision). &nbsp;This could be done by:</FONT> <BR>
<UL>
  <LI><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Mailing around XML documents that encode the 
  above. &nbsp;Fine for us, but not for public comments.</FONT> 
  <LI><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>A mailing list where we have another 
  convention for encoding this data, like Patrick's "pd:1:11.3.1 Alternative 
  Format Import Part". Again, the public won't get this right.</FONT> 
  <LI><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>An online web site, blog, wiki, XForms, 
  whatever, something that will validate input and output in correct format. Of 
  course, this will require some app dev work and hosting 
work.</FONT></LI></UL><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I think whatever we do 
we'll need to assume that public comments will break all rules we make, will be 
misformatted, miscategorized, etc. &nbsp;So we should assume that we'll need to 
rekey them to get them to fit within our data model. &nbsp;So if we need todo 
this always, maybe we just send around XML documents ourselves?</FONT> 
<BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>-Rob</FONT> <BR><BR><BR><BR>
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    <TD width="40%"><FONT face=sans-serif size=1><B>"Steve Carton" 
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      <P><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>04/04/2007 09:30 AM</FONT> </P>
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            <DIV align=right><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>To</FONT></DIV>
          <TD><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>&lt;robert_weir@us.ibm.com&gt;, 
            &lt;patrick@durusau.net&gt;</FONT> 
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          <TD><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>"Dave Welsh" 
            &lt;dave.welsh@microsoft.com&gt;, "Doug Mahugh" 
            &lt;Doug.Mahugh@microsoft.com&gt;, "Frank Farance" 
            &lt;frank@farance.com&gt;, "Jerry Smith" 
            &lt;jerry.smith@disa.mil&gt;, "Jon Bosak" &lt;jon.bosak@sun.com&gt;, 
            "Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E" &lt;Leonard.Levine@disa.mil&gt;, 
            "Price, Lynne" &lt;lprice@ix.netcom.com&gt;, "Mason, James David 
            \(MXM\)" &lt;masonjd@y12.doe.gov&gt;, "Norm Walsh" 
            &lt;ndw@nwalsh.com&gt;, "Rex Jaeschke" &lt;rex@RexJaeschke.com&gt;, 
            "Richard Barber" &lt;Richard.Barber@mindjet.com&gt;, "Ron Silletti" 
            &lt;silletti@us.ibm.com&gt;, "Tim Schoechle" 
            &lt;timothy@schoechle.org&gt;</FONT> 
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          <TD><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>RE: Processing DIS 29500 
            (OOXML)</FONT></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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color=blue size=2>I wonder -- would a BLOG style of communication/interaction be 
appropriate here?</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3>&nbsp;</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial 
color=blue size=2>Steve</FONT> <BR><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> robert_weir@us.ibm.com 
[mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] <B><BR>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:27 
AM<B><BR>To:</B> patrick@durusau.net<B><BR>Cc:</B> Dave Welsh; Doug Mahugh; 
Frank Farance; Jerry Smith; Jon Bosak; Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E; Price, 
Lynne; Mason, James David (MXM); Norm Walsh; Rex Jaeschke; Richard Barber; Ron 
Silletti; Steve Carton; Tim Schoechle<B><BR>Subject:</B> Re: Processing DIS 
29500 (OOXML)</FONT><FONT size=3><BR></FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif 
size=2><BR>A lot to think of here.</FONT><FONT size=3> <BR></FONT><FONT 
face=sans-serif size=2><BR>To your list I'd add a private web page or ftp site 
for posting large documents, such as related ISO standards, or even the DIS 
29500 materials linked to in this ballot, which I understand is different than 
the version submitted to JTC1 originally. &nbsp; So we all need access to the 
current materials.</FONT><FONT size=3> <BR></FONT><FONT face=sans-serif 
size=2><BR>As for public comments, we definitely should think about how to do 
this efficiently. &nbsp;I know that other NB's were inundated with comments, 
often to their business or personal email addresses. &nbsp;If we can avoid the 
chaos while at the same time being responsive to the public, this would be 
preferred. &nbsp;Whether we want it or not, public comments will come. &nbsp;The 
question is whether we want to take steps now to make this a more orderly 
process?</FONT><FONT size=3> <BR></FONT><FONT face=sans-serif size=2><BR>Are you 
able to get to ISO_CommentsTemplate.zip, which is the template for entering 
comments? &nbsp;I'd recommend that we submit our final comments in ODF if 
possible. &nbsp;We can map the data model of the template to conventions for the 
email comments, such as your "pd:1:11.3.1 Alternative Format Import Part" 
example, and generate the ODF document automatically from the email 
comments.</FONT><FONT size=3> <BR></FONT><FONT face=sans-serif 
size=2><BR>-Rob</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><FONT face=sans-serif 
size=2><BR>___________________________<BR><BR>Rob Weir<BR>Software 
Architect<BR>Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software<BR>IBM Software 
Group<BR><BR>email: robert_weir@us.ibm.com<BR>phone: 1-978-399-7122<BR>blog: 
http://www.robweir.com/blog/</FONT><FONT size=3> <BR><BR></FONT>
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    <TD width="13%"><FONT face=sans-serif size=1><B>Patrick Durusau 
      &lt;patrick@durusau.net&gt;</B> </FONT>
      <P><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>04/04/2007 08:29 AM</FONT><FONT size=3> 
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            <DIV align=center><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>Please respond 
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            <DIV align=right><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>To</FONT></DIV>
          <TD width="96%"><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>Frank Farance 
            &lt;frank@farance.com&gt;, Jon Bosak &lt;jon.bosak@sun.com&gt;, 
            "Price, Lynne" &lt;lprice@ix.netcom.com&gt;, Dave Welsh 
            &lt;dave.welsh@microsoft.com&gt;, Doug Mahugh 
            &lt;Doug.Mahugh@microsoft.com&gt;, Rex Jaeschke 
            &lt;rex@RexJaeschke.com&gt;, Steve Carton 
            &lt;steve.carton@retrievalsystems.com&gt;, Jerry Smith 
            &lt;jerry.smith@disa.mil&gt;, Norm Walsh &lt;ndw@nwalsh.com&gt;, 
            Richard Barber &lt;Richard.Barber@mindjet.com&gt;, Robert Weir 
            &lt;robert_weir@us.ibm.com&gt;, "Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E" 
            &lt;Leonard.Levine@disa.mil&gt;, Tim Schoechle 
            &lt;timothy@schoechle.org&gt;, "Mason, James David (MXM)" 
            &lt;masonjd@y12.doe.gov&gt;, Ron Silletti 
            &lt;silletti@us.ibm.com&gt;</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT>
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size=3><BR><BR></FONT><TT><FONT size=2><BR>Greetings!<BR><BR>As I noted in my 
post yesterday, we have until June 17, 2007 to prepare <BR>the recommended 
position on DIS 29500.<BR><BR>Having slept on it I have some more specific 
suggestions on how we <BR>should proceed.<BR><BR>1. Obviously we need a mail 
reflector for V1 members. I will talk to <BR>Frank Farance about this but I do 
have a question:<BR><BR>Should we have a public archive of our 
discussions?<BR><BR>My personal opinion is yes since the ISO standards process 
is supposed <BR>to be "transparent." I take that to mean that the discussions in 
that <BR>process should be available to anyone who wants to see them.<BR><BR>2. 
Do we need a public list for the submission of comments from members <BR>of the 
public?<BR><BR>OASIS has such lists and I can attest that they have been helpful 
any <BR>number of times in finding bugs in standards.<BR><BR>I am less certain 
that we need an email list in the traditional sense <BR>because feelings are 
running high enough on all sides to make an open <BR>list too much traffic to be 
useful.<BR><BR>On the other hand, a widely publicized webpage for comments that 
forces <BR>choice of a part and section, so that the comments can be 
automatically <BR>sorted could be really useful. I don't have any illusions 
about our <BR>committee being able to review every nook and cranny of DIS 
29500.<BR><BR>The results from such a webpage should be public for the same 
reasons as <BR>the proposed discussion list for the committee.<BR><BR>3. 
Comments by V1 Members<BR><BR>I have reviewed the membership list and at least 
at this point we all <BR>appear to have unique initials.<BR><BR>My suggestion on 
comments is that we use the subject line to contain our <BR>initials, followed 
by a colon, followed by the part, colon and then the <BR>section number and 
heading of the portion of OOXML we are commenting on. 
<BR>Thus,<BR><BR>pd:1:11.3.1 Alternative Format Import Part<BR><BR>That will be 
very helpful in terms of marshalling all the comments and <BR>responses on a 
particular section for discussion.<BR><BR>I don't have a definitive date on the 
OOXML topic map that my handlers <BR>are preparing under my direction and I 
don't want to wait until that is <BR>certain one way or the other to setup 
mechanisms for our discussions. If <BR>the software proves useful for the 
committee, we can always import any <BR>data we have generated by that point 
anyway.<BR><BR>4. Processing comments and developing the US recommended 
position<BR><BR>I think we need a two-stage process for the development of the 
US <BR>recommended position.<BR><BR>a. We need to process the comments and 
decide if we accept the comments, <BR>without deciding on what impact any 
particular comment has on the <BR>ultimate recommended position. That will 
enable us to develop a basis on <BR>which to formulate our ultimate 
position.<BR><BR>b. After processing of our comments, then we use those comments 
as the <BR>basis for our recommendation on the US position.<BR><BR>5. Sharing V1 
comments with other NBs.<BR><BR>The formulation of the recommended US position 
may or may not include <BR>comments. However, I would like to suggest that as we 
develop our <BR>position on particular comments, I would like to share those 
with other <BR>NBs. Given the size and complexity of the proposal, being aware 
of our <BR>comments may cause other NBs to develop comments on areas that we 
have <BR>not had time to consider.<BR><BR>6. Evaluation and adoption of 
comments<BR><BR>I really don't know how many comments we are going to generate 
as V1 <BR>members nor how many comments will appear from members of the 
public.<BR><BR>There are several ways we can process the 
comments.<BR><BR>Although I distrust wikis, it might not be a bad idea to post 
the <BR>comments to a wiki where only V1 members could vote and we can both 
<BR>comment as well as indicate our vote of yes or no on each issue. From 
<BR>what I understand of Drupal, it has the ability to control who votes and 
<BR>to show the results of the votes.<BR><BR>In the absence of the soon to 
appear topic map software that might be a <BR>better processing model than what 
I have suggested above.<BR><BR>Noting that in any event I will have to use the 
INCITS comment template <BR>to prepare whatever comments are accepted by the 
committee to be <BR>included with the ballot results reflecting our ultimate 
position.<BR><BR>I am not opposed to having weekly teleconferences, say on 
Fridays, to <BR>discuss a given set of comments.<BR><BR>7. Recommendation (yes, 
you were looking for this part)<BR><BR>I suspect that as we near the end of the 
process we are going to need a <BR>face to face meeting to go over the final set 
of comments accepted by <BR>the committee and to develop our 
recommendation.<BR><BR>Not knowing how many comments we will accept or the 
nature of those <BR>comments, it is hard for me to say how long such a meeting 
would last.<BR><BR>I do think that we need to have teleconferencing facilities 
so any <BR>members who cannot physically attend can be present for the 
meeting.<BR><BR>Noting that the ballot is due on 17 June 2007, might we consider 
having <BR>a face to face starting on the 14th or 15th of June?<BR><BR>By that 
point we should have a set of comments that have been agreed <BR>upon by V1 and 
I assume that we will want to refine those and develop <BR>our final 
recommendation.<BR><BR>Thoughts? Comments?<BR><BR>Hope everyone is having a 
great day!<BR><BR>Patrick<BR><BR>-- <BR>Patrick 
Durusau<BR>Patrick@Durusau.net<BR>Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and 
Publishing Systems Interface<BR>Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference 
Model<BR>Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 
2003-2005<BR><BR>Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! 
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