From patrick@durusau.net Tue May 29 04:40:18 2007 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 07:39:24 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Electronic Annexes - Update In-reply-to: <465B7088.2090002@durusau.net> 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 , Ron Silletti , Tom.Ngo@nextpage.com, joseph.messina@bp.com Reply-to: patrick@durusau.net X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1180438804-1ca103530000-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: 1180438804 X-ASG-Whitelist: Client X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Electronic Annexes - Update X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at insimail.com Greetings! Background: Ecma submitted as part of DIS 29500 a set of electronic annexes and several questions have arisen about the status of those annexes in the ISO process. Research: I have been unable to find any information in the Directives concerning the publication of electronic annexes. I asked Richard Cook of ISO to confirm that ISO/IEC 26300 (ODF) was published without electronic annexes. I got an email from his this morning confirming that it was published without electronic annexes. (By way of explanation, ODF was published by OASIS with the schemas that appear in the document extracted to separate files for easy use. They are identical to the schema that appears in the document itself.) Suggestion: I think that suggests that we need to evaluate what is included in DIS 29500 of the electronic annexes (is anything left only to the electronic annexes?) and if so, how to cure that problem. (On the assumption that electronic annexes are not going to be published by ISO, understanding that it is the act of publication that confers IS status.) I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend! 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!