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From: Patrick Durusau [mailto:]
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Subject: [tab-askthetab] First Cut on
Profiles
Greetings!
Thinking about an appropriate response from
the TAB to the question raised by Rex Brooks.
As a first cut I would
suggest:
1. Acknowledge that OASIS has no formal guidance on the
"profile" issue
<JD> we first need to define which kind of profile we talk
about:
(a) integration profiles (a-la-WSI)
(b) usage profile (or
deployment profile), which is about a community of user deciding of how to layer
their own business practice on top of OASIS standards. May contain [application]
domain-specific info.
(c) COnformance profiles, whcih
are more about defining a (set of) conformance clause(s) that define precisely
what are the requirements - and the options - for a product that claims to
conform to a spec.
2. Summarize the resources posted
thus far, including those from Robin (thanks Robin!).
<JD> I made last year
a presentation about the general "profiling" activity, in EU. Will retrieve
these slides.
Perhaps in the form of an annotated set of resources
with the major issues bulleted as a lead in?
Question: Given the
complexity of the profile issue, do we need anything more than some bright line
stuff for the common cases (don't reuse names in a namespace unless you are
following the original definition)?
Having just skimmed most of the
material that has been posted, I can readily imagine having different opinions
on successive days about profiling in particular situations. I am not at all
certain that beyond repeating the considerations that have been outlined by
others that there is a lot of new ground to be covered. Perhaps after some
experience has been gained using those general profiling considerations I may
feel differently but at the moment I am not sure what more we could
offer.
I am not sure how such matters get on the agenda for
discussion/decision by the TAB but I would be more than happy to draft some text
that summarizes what I think could be some bring line rules and pointers to
other considerations that could form the basis for an answer from the
TAB.
<JD> we could add a
"profiling" section to out TAB wiki, as a collaborative space on this
topic.
I am assuming that answers are expected in some relatively
responsive time frame.
Hope everyone is having a great
weekend!
Patrick
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Patrick
Durusau
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener,
JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project
Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic
Maps)
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