Interesting thread - particularly on the issue of maintenance beyond the life of the TC.

The ISO committee that I chair (ISO TC184 SC4) maintains a SEDS (Standard Enhancement and Discrepancy System) database, where anyone using our standards can post queries and observed errors. Ths collection mechanism is maintained by the secretariat after a development team has finished ts work, so that a judgement can be made on when it is appropriate to consider revisions or updates. It also allows a new team proposing a revision to an existing standard to have immediate access to user experience, so that the revision project can address outstanding issues.

We also use the system to record any unresolved issues from approval ballots, so that these can be addressed in future updates.

I think the capability would be very useful for the PLCS TC, which will be generating multiple deliverables.

Howard Mason

jken...@datapower.com on 16/10/2003 16:29:52 To: karl...@oasis-open.org@INTERNET@wtgw cc: cha...@lists.oasis-open.org@INTERNET@wtgw

Subject: [chairs] A question for the Chairs

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A Question:

My Committee, the XSLT / XPath Conformance TC, has produced a conformance test suite comprising several thousand test cases. From time to time we get questions or comments regarding these tests. We keep track of these and attempt to resolve the issues raised, in much the same way that a software development group keeps track of bugs.

My question: do other committees have a need to track issues, and do you believe it would be useful for OASIS to provide a central / standard way to deal with these?

Thoughts / comments?

Thanks,

jeff kenton

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