Draft minutes of teleconference meeting on 2011-06-22 / Draft agenda for teleconference meeting on 2011-08-17

[Francis Cave]

Rob, Gerry

Sorry, I am obviously guilty of having over-interpreted (or should it be 
over-interpolated?) the direction of the discussion. I'm happy to 
correct the draft minutes as Rob has suggested.

Regards,

Francis Cave
Convenor



robert_weir at us.ibm.com wrote:

>sc34wg6-bounces at vse.cz wrote on 07/06/2011 06:37:45 PM:
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>>On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 21:46:09 Francis Cave wrote:
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>>>I attach draft minutes of the teleconference meeting on 2011-06-22. 
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>>>advise me of any errors.
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>>Regarding Item 6.1:
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>>"Although no formal position was taken by the meeting, the balance 
>>of view during the meeting seemed to be in favour of retaining 26300
>>to align with ODF 1.1, which will remain a supported OASIS standard 
>>after ODF 1.2 has been published, and creating a new numbered 
>>standard to align with ODF 1.2"
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>>While I understand the reasoning behind the view that perhaps ODF 1.
>>2 should have a new numbered standard may I present a non-technical 
>>reason for suggestind that IS 26300 should be retained?
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>I'd also question whether that was the sense of the meeting.  My sense was 
>it was quite undecided and even slightly tipped the other way.  But this 
>is extremely hard to determine on a teleconference, absent a formal poll 
>of attendees, so I'd be satisfied if the minutes merely stated that the 
>topic was discussed but no formal position was taken. 
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>>Suprisingly thought it may seem, it is not clear that 
>>administrations (more specifically UKG) would be able to get their 
>>heads around the new number. UKG struggles with standards generally.
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>>I caution against anythin that could lead to the unintended 
>>consequence of (even) slower adoption of ODF.
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>>This is not an unevidenced assertion. 
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>>May I ask you to look at the following?
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>>http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/156/89/
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>>http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/141/89/
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>>http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/149/89/
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>>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmpubadm/
>>writev/goodgovit/it63.htm
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>>Thank you
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>>Gerry Gavigan
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