[dsdl-discuss] Re: (off-topic) Splitting up a fast-track standard

Rick
  ----- So my question is that if a national body said "These things should be
  moved in different standards or TR or PAS" can ISO just be asked to
  allocate some new documents, the editors make the split, and all the new
  documents become FDIS? In other words, as part of a ballot resolution,
  can 1 exceptionally large DIS be split into multiple FDISs with
  different numbers?
I think the nearest thing that has come up in this field is when we made all the tutorial material in 8879 into TR 9573. But this was at WG level, not in response to national body comments.

There are no clear mechanisms for doing this for fast track standards such as OOXML because this problem has not arisen before. If we were not fast-tracking OOXML national bodies could simply say that the standard was not conformant with ISO Directives, which clearly state that tutorial material should not be included in the standard and should be kept as a TR if felt to be essential to the acceptance of the standard. MS were told that what they were producing was not conformant with ISO Directives and would have to be changed to conform to it the minute they wanted to issue a revised version.

VML can certainly be moved into an informative Annex, and OPC could be moved into a normative Annex, without any problems, but your question is not really can we split a DIS into multiple FDISs but can we remove substantive amounts of the ballotted standard to a separate non-normative TR without another ballot. Here you are on dodgy ground. I could imaging a TR that was a part of the same standard (as in Part 10 of DSDL) but if it went to another standard it would have to go through the ballot process again I suspect.

Don't take anything I've written as normative though :-)

Martin

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