60-day Public Review for OpenDocument Version 1.2 (COS)

The OpenDocument Version 1.2 specification produced by

the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications

(OpenDocument) Technical Committee [1] is now entering

60-day COS public review in preparation for member

ballot to consider approval as an OASIS Standard:

Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Version 1.2

Candidate OASIS Standard (COS) 01

10 May 2011

In addition to the prose Overview document, the

specification is comprised of the following parts:

OpenDocument v1.2 Part 1: OpenDocument Schema

OpenDocument v1.2 Part 2: Recalculated Formula (OpenFormula) Format

OpenDocument v1.2 Part 3: Packages

OpenDocument v1.2 Relax NG Schema

OpenDocument v1.2 Manifest Schema

OpenDocument v1.2 Digital Signature Schema

OpenDocument v1.2 Metadata Manifest Ontology

OpenDocument v1.2 Package Metadata Manifest Ontology

.

Members of the OpenDocument TC have approved a Special

Majority ballot to advance OpenDocument v1.2 Committee

Specification (CS) to Candidate OASIS Standard (COS) level,

and have met all the requirements of the TC process for

a COS Submission [2]. The declarations include

certification that all schemas and XML instances are

well formed/valid; statements of use; accounts of

previous public reviews; disposition logs; etc. Details

of the submission request are available online for public

inspection [3].

Specification Summary

Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument)

Version 1.2 specifies the characteristics of an XML-based

application-independent and platform-independent digital

document file format, as well as the characteristics of

software applications which read, write and process such

documents. This standard is applicable to document

authoring, editing, viewing, exchange and archiving,

including text documents, spreadsheets, presentation

graphics, drawings, charts and similar documents commonly

used by personal productivity software applications.

OASIS has two other Technical Committees, the ODF Adoption

TC and the ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC which

do work that compliments the work of the OpenDocument TC.

The OpenDocument TC has liaisons to these other committees.

ISO/IEC JTC1 approved OASIS OpenDocument v1.0 under their

Publically Available Specification (PAS) process as ISO/IEC

26300:2006, and is in the process of approving OASIS

OpenDocument v1.1. It is expected that the OpenDocument

TC will ask OASIS to submit OASIS OpenDocument v1.2 to them

under PAS rules for transposition into an International

Standard. There is an OASIS and an OASIS OpenDocument TC

liaison with JTC1/SC34, the committee that maintains

ISO/IEC 26300.  Maintenance is done under an agreement

between OASIS and ISO/IEC JTC1 that requires that the ISO

version remains 'technically equivalent' to the OASIS

version.

The OpenDocument Technical Committee was chartered to

create an open, XML-based file format specification for

office applications.

Public Review Period

The 60-day public review starts today, 23 June 2011 and

ends 22 August 2011.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits

feedback from potential users, developers and others,

whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving

the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs

The prose specification document and related files are available here:

Editable Source:

Core:    
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01.odt

Part 1:  
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-part1.odt

Part 2:  
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-part2.odt

Part 3:  
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-part3.odt

HTML:

Core:    
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01.html

Part 1:  
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-part1.html

Part 2:  
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-part2.html

Part 3:  
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-part3.html

PDF:

Core:    
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01.pdf

Part 1:  
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-part1.pdf

Part 2:  
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-part2.pdf

Part 3:  
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-part3.pdf

RNG schema and OWL files:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-dsig-schema.rng

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-manifest-schema.rng

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-schema.rng

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-metadata.owl

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-package-metadata.owl

Distribution ZIP files

Entire specification:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01.zip

Schema files:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cos01-schemas.zip

Other specification artifacts:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cos01/

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS

Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument)

Technical Committee may be found at the TC's public home page:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use

of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the

button labeled "Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home

page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=office

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other

work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback

License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the

same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In

connection with this public review of 'OpenDocument Version 1.2

(COS)', we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4]

applicable especially [5] to the work of this technical committee.

All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which

may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability

of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that

read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons

who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be

essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that

notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

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[1] OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument)

     Technical Committee

     http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/

[2] Candidate OASIS Standard and OS approval

http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process-2008-06-19#OASISstandard

[3] COS submission request

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/41827/odf12-submission.odt

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[5] RF on Limited Terms Mode IPR Mode

     http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/ipr.php

     http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.2.3