RE: WebCGM 2.0 REC cover page

Ian,

You wrote on Jan 2:
 "Although it is not strictly required that we sync up the publication
and the press release, it is strongly preferred. I have a record of
Thierry Michel indicating (on 17 Nov) that the WG agreed to do the
publication of the Recommendation at the same time as the press release
(in January 2007). Our current plan, based on other work at W3C, is to
issue the Recommendation and press release on 30 January."

While I'm sympathetic with the "strongly preferred" practice of having
the publication and press release coincide, I think the requirement of a
large user constinuency (ATA and ASD) should be enough to allow us to
work within the parameters of the process.

I would propose we pick a date (20070130 is fine with me) and make sure
that the publication date is the same date.  Whether the press release
exactly coincides with that date is of little consequence to the users
who are relying on being able to reference WebCGM 2.0.

As I said before I need to get references into both iSpec2200 and S1000D
as soon as possible and waiting until early February is not an option.
Both of these industry specification are passed the date where editing
changes are allowed, but I've been able to put in placeholders for
WebCGM 2.0.  S1000D has two reference sections that are not hyperlinked
that reference W3C documents of the form REC-yyyymmdd-etc and one
hyperlinked reference to the actual specification to define the profile.
iSpec2200 has a single hyperlinked reference to WebCGM in the profile
definition.  Both specification are subject to contractual terms, so
using "latest version" hyperlinks is not recommended.

Let's see if we can't work something out on setting a publication date
that we can reference.

Thx...Dave Cruikshank

Technical Fellow - Graphics/Digital Data Interchange
Boeing Commercial Airplane
206.544.3560, fax 206.662.3734
david.w.cruikshank@boeing.com

Received on Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:38:53 UTC