Where angels fear
...
Since my organization is a DITA
adopter rather than potential competitor in the vendor space serving adopters,
maybe I can dare to be a bit more forthright.
Representatives of member
organizations meet on committees and subcommittees in a cooperative spirit to
establish standards, guidelines, etc. to the mutual benefit of
all.
Might another organization enter
such a committee (or view its work and membership from the outside) and construe
that cooperative spirit as collusion among an anti-competitive cabal?
Surely in the full breadth of
OASIS such issues have arisen before and been addressed. As one possible approach, is "mutual benefit" defined in
the broadest sense somewhere in the OASIS umbrella such that no one can construe
it in a narrow, exclusionary sense, and can a TC or SC point to that umbrella
definition should the issue arise?
/Bruce
Nevin
From: Michael Priestley
[mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:01
PM
To:
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Subject: Re: [dita] Re: Meeting Request:
Issues About OASIS and OASIS-Approved Publications
Hi Stan,
To clarify, I don't think anyone suggested that an
OASIS member organization would sue another OASIS member organization. The
question was, are there any concerns about a group of OASIS member
organizations writing about the products of other companies (or writing about
some products but not others, for that matter).
So much for not characterizing the issues in writing
:-) But I wanted to correct the characterization of the chit-chat
anyway.
Michael Priestley, Senior
Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
03/18/2009 01:23 PM
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Re: [dita] Re: Meeting Request:
Issues About OASIS and OASIS-Approved
Publications
Hi
Mary --
Spring is in the air. With chit-chat about OASIS member
organizations being open to suing other OASIS member organizations and OASIS
individual members, it may not be prudent for any individual to characterize
the issues in writing (hence the intentional vagueness in my previous email).
Perhaps the best course would be to have the TC next Tuesday "approve"
the minutes of our meeting yesterday, thereby providing an appropriate
starting place for defining the issues pertinent to the meeting that we'd like
to organize with you.
Sorry ... I wish that it were as simple as
summarizing the explicit points of debate.
Stan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary McRae"
To:
Cc: ,
Subject: [dita] Re: Meeting Request: Issues About
OASIS and OASIS-Approved Publications
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:12:04
-0400
Hi Stan,
It would be most helpful if you could
provide the list of issues in advance so I can make sure to have the right
people involved - once I have a better idea I can look at schedules and see
what will work for everyone.
Regards,
Mary
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:34 PM, <>
wrote:
Hi Mary --
In the process of reviewing the DITA
Help Technologies Guide (attached), the DITA Technical Committee bumped into
some issues -- some potentially legal -- that are beyond the scope of our TC.
We suspect (and hope) that other TCs or working groups in OASIS have
encountered and resolved such issues.
We are hoping that you could set up a concall next week with
you and with the following DITA people:
-
-
- Micheal Priestley
- Don Day
- Stan Doherty
Two goals for the meeting --
1. Review the
issues.
2. Identify from the OASIS side of things
possible precedents, resources, and solution strategies
Thanks,
Stan
Doherty
--
Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration,
OASIS
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