[sc34wg3] Re: WG3 Atlanta recommendations (draft)

[Michel Biezunski]

Ken, Steve, and all:

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 22:33, G. Ken Holman - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34
Secretary wrote:
> At 2005-11-15 15:30 -0500, Michel Biezunski wrote:
> >Steve,
> >
> >I got your email but not the attachment. Could you resend it please?
> >Thank you,
> >
> >Michel
> 
> Steve has already left, so here is his attachment.  I'll be making 
> this a numbered document for the web site when I do the paperwork in 
> preparation for tomorrow's closing plenary session.
> 
> . . . . . . . . . Ken  

Ken, Steve, and all:

Comments about the following section:

<H4>9. Appreciation to Michel Biezunski and Empolis</H4>
<P>WG3 requests that SC34 express thanks and appreciation to Michel
Biezunski for his kind offer to donate the domain topicmaps.org to
SC34 on behalf of WG3.</P>
<P>WG3 requests that SC34 express thanks and appreciation to Empolis
GmbH for kindly donating the domain topicmaps.com to SC34 on behalf of
WG3.</P>
<P>Assuming that the transfer of topicmaps.org to SC34 can be
accomplished before December 20th 2005, WG3 will use this domain for all
namespaces and PSI sets that it publishes in connection with ISO 13250
and other Topic Maps standards. Failing that, the domain topicmaps.com
will be used for this purpose.</P>

I propose the following changes in section 9:

<H4>9. Appreciation to Michel Biezunski and Empolis</H4>


THIS PARAGRAPH SHOULD BE REWRITTEN:
<P>WG3 requests that SC34 acknowleges the proposal by Michel
Biezunski to donate the domain topicmaps.org to SC34 on behalf of WG3 
under certain conditions and moves forward towards an agreement
taking into account the conditions expressed by Michel Biezunski
during the meeting and expressed below.</P>

<P>WG3 requests that SC34 express thanks and appreciation to Empolis
GmbH for kindly donating the domain topicmaps.com to SC34 on behalf of
WG3.</P>

THIS PARAGRAPH SHOULD BE DELETED:
<P>Assuming that the transfer of topicmaps.org to SC34 can be
accomplished before December 20th 2005, WG3 will use this domain for all
namespaces and PSI sets that it publishes in connection with ISO 13250
and other Topic Maps standards. Failing that, the domain topicmaps.com
will be used for this purpose.</P>

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Background Information:

I have not yet donated, but submitted a proposal to donate,
topicmaps.org
to SC34 provided certain conditions are met (see below the proposal
I submitted during the meeting).

Moreover, I was not aware about the December deadline, which was
not discussed during the portion of the meeting I attended. I would like
to understand what is the signification of this date, why SC34 considers
that if the transfer is not effective at that date, the PSIs have to
be put to topicmaps.com. Not that I have any interest of delaying the
transfer, but I want to make sure that we have a full agreement in
place with all the details solved. And it was my understanding
that the reason why SC34 wanted to control topicmaps.org was mainly
because of the PSIs.

If the date has to do with a deadline for the submission of the 
next iteration of a specific document, we could decide in advance
that changing the name of the PSIs URLs amount to a typographical 
correction, with no impact on the content of the standard, which 
would give us the time to properly negotiate until a final agreement 
is reached, if necessary.

Here is the draft proposal including the conditions under
which I am proposing to transfer the ownership of topicmaps.org.


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November 14, 2005

About topicmaps.org

1) Topicmaps.org ownership would be transferred to SC34, through the
   Canadian Standards Organization, and will be controlled by SC34
   with the exception of a section devoted to the history of
   topicmaps.org. This section would be placed under the management of
   Michel Biezunski with full authority over the content. There will
   be a disclaimer saying that SC34 is not responsible for the content
   of that section. SC34 understands that the section of the web site
   is done as a service provided to the TopicMaps community, and that
   SC34 acknowledges that it won't be able to influence the content of
   that section. There should be no time limit to this agreement.

   Michel Biezunski intends to put Murray Altheim in charge of
   that section of the web site. The plan is to publish a
   comprehensive history with a record of the various versions of the
   documents that were created by topicmaps.org. It will be used and
   presented as archival material and will be done in a very rigorous
   and professional manner.


2) A notice will be published on topicmaps.org saying that this domain
   name was donated by Michel Biezunski, who was the initiator and
   co-founder of the activity once called "topicmaps.org", as well as
   a co-editor of the XTM specification from the beginning until
   January 2001. This notice will be permanent and will be put on the
   home page (http://www.topicmaps.org)

   The historical part of the web site will be at the URL:
   www.topicmaps.org/history.

   The historical section will be addressable from the home page.

3) A formal request from SC34 should be addressed to Michel Biezunski
   in the form of an email that should be sent with a copy to the
   mailing list. Any correspondence on that matter should be done 
   in the open, i.e., all emails should systematically be copied 
   to the mailing list. The letter should document the reasons why 
   it is important for SC34 to use topicmaps.org.



Thank you for taking my comments into account for the plenary.
As you know, I had to leave Atlanta on Tuesday morning and therefore
won't be able to participate to the plenary.

Michel Biezunski

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