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TITLE: |
Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 358 – Restatement of Topic
Maps, ISO/IEC 13250:2002 |
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SOURCE: |
SC 34 Secretariat |
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PROJECT: |
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PROJECT EDITOR: |
M. Biezunski, M. Bryan, S.
Newcomb |
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ACTION: |
Based on the voting results, this project is APPROVED.
This document is forwarded to the project editors, who are instructed to
begin development of this new work item.
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DATE: |
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DISTRIBUTION: |
SC34 and Liaisons |
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REFER TO: |
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REPLY TO: |
Dr. James David Mason |
JTC 1 / SC 34 N 0388
2003-03-26
JTC 1 / SC 34 Voting Summary
N 358 -
Proposed Restatement of Topic Maps, ISO/IEC 13250:2002
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Q.1 |
Do you accept the proposal in document JTC 1 N 358 as a sufficient definition of the new work item? (If you have responded "NO" to the above question, you are required to comment.) 8 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 -
Abstain, 5 - No Response |
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Q.2 |
Do you support the addition of the new work item to the programme of work of the joint technical committee? 7 - Yes, 0 - No, 1 -
Abstain, 5 - No Response |
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Q.3 |
Do you commit yourself to participate in the development of this new work item? 5 - Yes, 3 - No, 0 -
Abstain, 5 - No Response |
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Q.4 |
Are you able to offer a project editor who will dedicate his/her efforts to the advancement and maintenance of this project? (If "YES," please identify .............................................................) 3 - Yes, 5 - No, 0 -
Abstain, 5 - No Response |
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Q.5 |
Do you have a major contribution or a reference document ready for submittal? 8 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 -
Abstain, 5 - No Response |
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Q.6 |
Will you have such a contribution in ninety days? 8 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 -
Abstain, 5 - No Response |
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Brazil |
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Canada |
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N |
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China |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N |
N |
N |
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Denmark |
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France |
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Ireland |
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Italy |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N |
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N |
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Japan |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N |
N |
See below |
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Republic of Korea |
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Netherlands |
Y |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
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Norway |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N |
N |
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United Kingdom |
Y |
Y |
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Y |
N |
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United States |
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9.3.2
In order to be approved, the NP shall be supported by
a majority of all P‑members of JTC 1* with at least five P‑members of the SC to which the project
will be assigned committed to active participation.
*Per JTC 1 N 6148, the 60 Day Letter Ballot Concerning Subcommittee Level Approval of NPs was approved
Based on the results of this letter ballot, this NP is APPROVED, and will
be added to the SC 34 Program of Work
N 323 is still an accurate
guide to the work activities defined in N 358, implying that a key item for N
358 is to clarify and better establish the relationship between the SAM and RM.
Japan nominates Mr. Motom
Naito as an editor of a part of the Topic Maps.
Norway is not convinced of
the need to include the Reference Model in ISO 13250 and requests clearer
evidence of industry requirements. In any event the Reference Model must not be
allowed to delay the finalization and publication of other parts of 13250, in
particular the Standard Application Model and the XTM syntax specification.
The scope statement should be extended to include the four bulleted
items in the original scope of ISO 13250, but not the final paragraph, which
should be replaced by a statement of the following form:
"In addition to providing a formal reference model for topic map
assertions, and defining a set of information items that can be used to
describe the component parts of topic maps in object oriented models, the
standard also defines two standardized syntaxes for representing the model, one
based on the use of the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) derived from the
WebSGML applicaiton of the ISO 8879 Standard Generalized Markup Language
(SGML), and the other based on the use SGML Architectural Forms and other
techniques defined in ISO 10744, Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language
(HyTime). For the purposes of
conformance testing the standard also defines a canonicalized format for the
representation of topic map information items within test suites.”
Purpose and justification
Nothing is stated about the need to identify additions required to ISO
13250 to allow features added in the XTM syntax to be defined within the
revised standard.
The first part of the standard should not be "A guide to the
relationships between topic map standards" but should contain "An
overview of the relationships between the Parts of the Standard". Whether
or not it should contain reference to related standards, such as TCML and TQML
is a moot point. What is definitely required is a statement of how the proposed
syntaxes related to the different models, and to the canonicalized form of
topic maps that can be used for conformance testing. It should also explain the
role of the process of "deserialization" and the rules that apply to
merging.