ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N260

 

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TITLE:

 

Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 220 - Draft Technical Corrigendum Ballot on ISO/IEC 13250:2000 - Topic Maps

SOURCE:

SC 34 Secretariat

PROJECT:

 

PROJECT EDITOR:

SC 34 / WG 3

STATUS:

 

ACTION:

The results of this ballot being forwarded to WG 3 to address the national body comments received and submit a revised text to be sent to ITTF for publication.  The revised text and project editor’s disposition of comments will be sent to the SC 34 members for information and review.

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SC 34 N 260

2001-10-04

 

 

 

SC 34 Voting Summary on JTC 1/SC 34 N 220

Draft Technical Corrigendum Ballot on ISO/IEC 13250:2000 - Topic Maps

 

P-Member

APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT AS PRESENTED

APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT WITH COMMENTS AS GIVEN ON THE ATTACHED

DISAPPROVAL OF THE DRAFT FOR REASONS ON THE ATTACHED

Acceptance of these reasons and appropriate changes in the text will change our vote to approval

ABSTENTION (For Reasons Below):

Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

Canada

X

 

 

 

 

China

X

 

 

 

 

Denmark

X

 

 

 

 

France

 

 

 

 

X

Ireland

 

 

 

 

 

Italy

X

 

 

 

 

Japan

 

X

(technical and editorial)

 

 

 

Republic of  Korea

 

 

 

 

 

Netherlands

X

 

 

 

 

Norway

 

X

(technical and editorial)

 

 

 

United Kingdom

 

X

(technical and editorial)

 

 

 

United States

 

X

(editorial)

 

 

 

 

 

According to the JTC 1 Directives, Section 14.4.9.4.5

 

If the general results of the SC ballot were positive, but some comments were received, the SC Secretariat shall also forward the comments of the Project Editor for review when the voting results are distributed to the SC in accordance with 14.4.9.4.3 above.  The Project Editor shall prepare responses to the comments and return them to the SC Secretariat together with a revised text of the draft technical corrigendum if any modification has resulted from the editor’s review.  The SC Secretariat shall distribute the revised text and disposition of comments report to the SC for information, and shall proceed with the submittal to ITTF in accordance with 14.4.9.4.4 above (for publication). Each technical corrigendum shall list the status of all amendments and technical corrigenda to the current edition of the standard.

 

SC 34 National Body Comments on N 226

 

Japan

 

1. The descriptions:

"Copyright 2000-2001 TopicMaps.Org.  All rights reserved.  Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the XTM ........ purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty."

should be indicated as comments within the XML DTD. The comments should include the public identifier for invocation of the XML DTD.

 

2. The relationship between the elements/attributes of the XML DTD and those defined in the main body of ISO/IEC 13250 should be described.

 

3. Remove the clauses of "Defect Report on Topic Maps (ISO/IEC 13250:2000)".

 

4. Add the corrections in SC34 N238 and N239.

 

 

Norway

 

The relationship between the existing DTD and this new one should be defined in normative text, and this normative text needs to be published and finalized as soon as possible. This normative text should take the form of a formal model, with directions on how to build instances of the model from SGML and XML documents.

 

Annex C:

the copyright statement in the DTD needs to have '' added around it the names of the authors should be added to the comment as a matter of courtesy the following paragraph should be added to the comment:


"A provisional explication of this DTD can be found at http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/"

 

 

United Kingdom

 

The UK approves this proposed Technical Corrigendum but asks the Project Editor to take note of the following comments.

 

1. The UK appreciates the substantial work done in developing the XTM 1.0 DTD but considers that the DTD should be included in a non-normative annex. The UK considers that there are several possible ways of representing topic maps in XML and the inclusion of the XTM 1.0 DTD should not constrain the use of the standard such that it creates problems for alternative implementations. The UK considers that any unreasonable constraints can be avoided by making the annex non-normative and changing any imperative requirements to recommendations by replacing occurrences of the word ‘must’ to ‘should’.

 

2. Text included in ISO standards cannot include third-party copyright statements.

Remove "Copyright 2000-2001 TopicMaps.Org. All rights reserved."

The following comments are offered as possible improvements to the DTD:

 

3. The proposed DTD does not allow the expression of all functionality of ISO/IEC 13250. It should be possible to record facets at the very least.

 

4. The proposed DTD provides features that are not part of ISO/IEC 13250. The following are additional to the requirements of the standard and should be identified as such.

mergeMap, instanceOf, subjectIndicator and subjectIndicatorRef

 

5. The proposed DTD does not distinguish variants used as sort names from variants used as alternative display versions.

 

 

United States

 

Normative text needs to be added to explain the relationship between the XTM DTD and the original HyTime architectural form meta-DTD.