----- Original Message ----- From: "Berin Lautenbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 7:35 PM Subject: Interaction with third parties
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ted Leung wrote: > | I didn't include Berin's change about supplying input to W3C, because > | we're not W3C members, so it's hard to state > | that we'll always do that, even though many committers are members of > | W3C working groups. Also, you could > | make the argument that we'll do the same for the JCP, since the ASF is > | allowed to have JCP expert group member > | and concomitant votes. We should discuss this as a separate thread. > | > > Apologies - I wasn't very clear in my original e-mail. I'd say it would > be inappropriate to mention any particular organisations in the charter. > ~ The use of W3C was meant purely as an example. > > The thought was more along the line that we are trying to "promote the > use of XML" and one way of doing that is to feed some of the knowledge > gained from the various projects back into some of the developing standards. > > Given it's being done (I was watching one thread in xalan-dev recently), > and appears to be a worthy thing to do, it might be worth mentioning in > the introductory sections of the charter. But much more than that would > probably be counter-productive. There is already a statement further > down about the PMC facilitating interaction with the external world. > > Maybe something along the lines of : > > In order to achieve a coherent architecture between xml.apache.org > components and other components and applications, standards (formal or > de facto) will be used as much as possible for both protocols and > APIs. Where appropriate, experiences and lessons learnt will be fed back > to standards bodies in an effort to assist in the development of those > standards. We will also allow the innovation of new protocols, APIs, > and components in order to seed new concepts not yet defined by standards. > I like the general thought here. Does anyone else have an opinion on this? Ted --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
