- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:51:38 +0100
- To: "Michael Hucka" <mhucka@caltech.edu>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Hi Michael, On 12 May 2009, at 07:22, Michael Hucka wrote: > Hello there, > > I hope this is not too off-topic -- I'm new to this group > and still am trying to get a sense for what it's about. The way to figure out it's formal scope is to read the charter: http://www.w3.org/2008/05/HCLSIGCharter > Those of us working on SBML (the Systems Biology Markup > Language -- see http://sbml.org) would like to pursue > standards-body recognition of SBML. Would this (HCLSIG) be > an appropriate group within which to pursue that goal? If by "pursue" you mean, "Produce, though the direct workings of this group, a W3C recommendation (without a recharter)" then then answer is simple, "No". However, you could make a W3C member submission of the SBML documents with a recommendation that the W3C standardize it. Activities in this group could help build consensus around SBML (and around SBML being standardized by the W3C). > If > not, what alternative(s) would people recommend? Well, given that standardization is a costly endeavor, I'd ask about the motivations and expected benefits for moving development into a standards body, per se.n There are lots of different sorts of standards body and lots of different reasons for pursuing standardization. Cheers, Bijan.
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