[sc34-wg1]

[Alex Brown]

Rob hi

Our emails crossed - see my recent responses.

I agree it would be perfectly reasonable if this group decided to include RER considerations in its deliverables.

What I think would be *unreasonable* is forbidding work on our primary stated task because some experts didn't agree with the NB decision that the task needed doing -- a consensus-driven process is not the same as a veto-driven one.

- Alex.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sc34wg1study-bounces at vse.cz [mailto:sc34wg1study-
> bounces at vse.cz] On Behalf Of robert_weir at us.ibm.com
> Sent: 02 November 2010 14:39
> To: ISO Zip
> Subject: RE: [sc34-wg1]
> 
> sc34wg1study-bounces at vse.cz wrote on 11/02/2010 09:58:07 AM:
> 
> >
> > In this particular group we are several levels down the committee
> > structure, and our assigned task is "establishing a firmer rationale
> > for standardization of aspects of the 'ZIP'  format". If NBs had
> > wanted to abandon the notion of standardizing Zip they would simply
> > have let the ballot result of the failed NP stand. Instead they have
> > initiated this study activity.
> >
> 
> We were given a scope, but not a predetermined outcome.  Within that
> scope it is perfectly reasonable to establish a firm rationale for
> recommending that an RER should be used when referencing the ZIP
> Application Note, since the RER/RS process is a permitted process within
> ISO/IEC standardization.  It is also within scope to provide a rationale for the
> standardization of a profile suitable for ZIP document packages, and that this
> profile standard reference the Application Note via an RER-backed
> reference.
> 
> Or are you, as Conventor, insisting that this Study Group may consider only
> one outcome, the same proposal that was just a few months ago soundly
> defeated by NBs?
> 
> Seeing that there is no consensus on standardizing ZIP as a whole, are you
> going to lead this Study Group forward toward things on which me might be
> able to achieve consensus?
> 
> -Rob
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