From patrick@durusau.net Thu May 17 05:43:48 2007 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 08:05:13 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: DIS 29500 Contradiction of ISO/IEC 26300, part 6 To: Dave Welsh , Doug Mahugh , Frank Farance , Jerry Smith , Jon Bosak , "Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E" , Norm Walsh , "Lynne A. Price" , Rex Jaeschke , Richard Barber , Robert Weir , Steve Carton , Tim Schoechle , "Mason, James David (MXM)" , Kevin Trainor , Eduardo Gutentag Reply-to: patrick@durusau.net X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1179405793-352200120000-F3fpwQ X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.10.100.8:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: unknown[66.110.197.207] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1179405793 X-ASG-Whitelist: Client X-ASG-Orig-Subj: DIS 29500 Contradiction of ISO/IEC 26300, part 6 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at insimail.com Greetings! So, after considering all of the foregoing, how do we resolve the issue of whether or not DIS 29500 "contradicts" ISO/IEC 26300? Ecma says that: "To the best of our knowledge, it is the only XML document format that supports every feature of the binary formats." (referring to DIS 29500, Explanatory Report, page 2.) But, since DIS 29500 lacks a mapping from the binary formats in question, there is no basis on which to evaluate the accuracy of that statement. Either with regard to DIS 29500 or with regard to ISO/IEC 29500. That should be a matter of factual evaluation of a mapping from the binary formats in question to the format defined by DIS 29500 but as I noted earlier, that mapping is not present in DIS 29500. Nor is there an attempted mapping from those binary formats to ISO/IEC 26300 to support the implied claim that ISO/IEC 26300 cannot support the features (unspecified by DIS 29500) that are capable of representation in DIS 29500. The Common Strategic Characteristics of standards that are developed under the JTC 1 Directives are affirmative requirements and therefore the burden of proving conformance to those characteristics falls on the proposer of a standard. Only one more (the position) to follow! 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!