[sc34wg3] WG3 agenda for London meeting

[Michel Biezunski]

Agenda:

I believe we should instead have 1/2 day Saturday morning (SC34 plenary
until morning break and WG3 plenary from morning break to lunch). In
this meeting we should discuss the general issues 
(advancement of the work, various items proposed, status of the roadmap,
etc.), and then split the meeting into technical 
meetings dealing with each of the current projects: SAM, RM, TMQL, TMCL. 
Everybody, and especially the voting members of the national bodies, should
know that there are 2 meetings that they must attend (opening and
closing WG3 plenary) since this would be the only two meetings where
decisions and votes would be taken. If we do it this way, there is
no risk that someone would lose track of what's happening, 
as it happened in the past due to flaws in organizing the agenda
of previous meetings.

The length of each of those technical meetings and 
their agenda should be left to each of the working groups organizers
to be discussed during the WG3 plenary.
If one of the subgroups considers their meeting should be a 2-hour
unformal conversation because the work is either finished or
not advanced enough, that's fine.

Then we should reconvene one hour before the SC34 plenary to get
a synthesis of what would have been accomplished by each of the
working group.

In general it's better to keep the WG3 meetings to the minimum
so that work can be more efficient. 

Michel Biezunski,
Co-Editor of ISO/IEC 13250
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sc34wg3-admin@isotopicmaps.org
> [mailto:sc34wg3-admin@isotopicmaps.org]On Behalf Of Steve Pepper
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:06 AM
> To: sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
> Subject: [sc34wg3] WG3 agenda for London meeting
> 
> 
> I'm putting together the agenda for the London meeting, attempting to
> accomodate various requests I have received, and would like feedback
> as soon as possible if any of the following presents problems for
> anyone.
> 
> In Baltimore we agreed to four days of meetings, from Friday May 2nd
> to Monday May 5th. I know some people object to spending so much time,
> but we have such a lot to get through that I don't see any reasonable
> alternative to following the decision taken at the last meeting. The
> discussions on the mailing list, while very useful, have not resulted
> in the kind of substantive progress and consensus that would allow us
> to use the F2F for simply approving decisions taken by email.
> 
> I have therefore set up the following provisional agenda, which will
> be sent to ISO in the next day or so unless I hear major objections.
> 
> 
> Friday May 2nd
> --------------
> AM
>    Welcome and Approval of Agenda
>    Roadmap and Timetable of Work
>     - general discussion
> PM
>    XTM (syntax and deserialization specifications)
>    HyTM (syntax and deserialization specifications) [Martin's request]
>    SAM issues (if time remains)
> 
> Saturday May 3rd
> ----------------
> AM
>    SC34 Plenary
>    TMCL - requirements                              [Mary's request]
> PM
>    RM session - introduction and discussion         [Patrick's request]
> 
> Sunday May 4th
> --------------
> AM
>    SAM - remaining issues
> PM
>    Canonicalization syntax and conformance
> 
> Monday May 5th
> --------------
> All day
>    TMQL workshop - requirements, presentation of proposals, discussion
> 
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
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