WSDM TC request toapprove WSDM 1.0 as OASIS Standard

Jamie,

The WSDM Technical Committee met today to discuss
the results of voting on WSDM 1.0.  There were 73 votes cast, of which
66 were positive and 7 were negative.

 

We had a quorum (23 of 26 voting members), and we discussed
the comments on the YES and NO votes in depth. The No votes were fundamentally
about the same issue of dependencies on other specifications and not technical
in nature. We came to a consensus that the specification could not be changed
to remove the objection and WSDM is an an important enough standard for
the industry to continue to proceed to an OASIS standard status as it is.
We voted (22 in favor, 1 opposed) to proceed with taking the WSDM 1.0 specification
to standard.

FYI, Out of respect for the opposing companies, we have
crafted a TC response to the issue to share with them. 

Thank you,

Heather Kreger

Co-chair OASIS WSDM TC

STSM, SWG Standards, IBM