[dsdl-discuss] Re: Synchronization of the OASIS RELAXNGCompactSyntax and the ISO/IEC19757-2 AMENDMENT 1: Compact Syntax

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:20:49PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:

I missed a part of my citation

>
> I see 3 scenarios:
>
> 1. Leave it as is, and OASIS can go forward with the revision and
> submit their standard as PAS for the next edition. This will result in a
> number of different standards from OASIS and ISO, and make implementers
> a bit confused on which standard to implement.
>
>
> 2. OASIS can take the resulting ISO standard back in their process,
> and hope that an OASIS ballot will not resolve in changes to the new
> OASIS standard. This will establish one standard, but it is likely that
> the changes to the 1.0 standard will be small, and that it will lead to
> market confusion which version of the standard to implement. It is also
> possible that the OASIS process introduces new changes.

3. Maintain the standard jointly between OASIS and SC34. There is a model for it
        in how the POSIX operating system standard is being maintained in
        SC22, recorded in SC34 N0587. Here the participating standards
        organizations are developing the standard together, so that there is
        just one document maintained in a common group, called the ”Austin
        Group” (from where the first meeting was held). The common
        group consists of experts from each constituency and informal
        decisions are taken a count of heads. If there are disputes that is
        taken to the formal level in the common group, each constituency has
        one vote, to be determined by the rules of the constituency. The
        development and maintenance process is done in parallel in each of
        the organisations, and according to the rules of the individual
        organization. In ISO this is the normal 5 stage process. These
        procedures ensures that the resulting final standard will be the
        same in each organization, and the number of versions of the
        standard will be fewer, probably only half the number that the PAS
        procedures produce. It will also mean a quicker cycle for ISO, as
        there will not be the delay from having the OASIS standard approved,
        and then having a DIS ballot and a following period of comments
        resolving. In the case of the first edition, the OASIS standard was
        approved in May 2005, and the ISO 26300 will be published hopefully
        some time late this year, which gives a delay of more than a year.
        This would be much reduced if the balloting would happen in parallel
        in OASIS and ISO.

I thus recommend that we use the common maintenance model recorded in SC34
N0587.

Similar steps can be done for RELAX NG and other projects.

best regards
keld

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