All:

Per last meeting we decided to submit the TA model, markup and Guidelines for
CS ballots (model, markup) and CN ballot (guidelines). Dennis: I think your minutes did not catch correctly the CN intent for the
Guidelines (reported as a CS intent) - am I correct? Anyway, the issue with moving the Guidelines to the newly created non-standard
track (as Committee Note), is that - after checking with the OASIS TC admin -
it would require starting again to square one on the CN track, meaning yet
another public review of 30 days. So we (myself and our secretary Dennis) are considering keeping the Guidelines
on a "standard" track as the other 2 deliverables, although it has no normative
statements and will NOT be moved beyond the Committee Specification (CS) status. The only real difference, is that the IPR status for Specifications is not same
as for Notes, which by nature do not constrain the TC contributors IP-wise as
much as CS do. Actually our TAG IPR mode "Royalty-Free on Limited Terms",
provides a clearer IP status and protection to users, for deliverables produced
as CS rather than CN. So in the short term, the model and markup are not affected: we move separately
the markup and model to CS ballot, as these are the ones to move further as
OASIS standards. But we need to decide as a TC if we are OK with the Guidelines as a "Committee
Specification" (as we have always stated in the past it would just be an
informational doc without specification status). For this I plan to schedule a short meeting Tuesday Nov 9th, 2pmPT. Please use
mailing list to voice your concern if any.

Thanks, Jacques