- From: Fay, Chuck <CFay@filenet.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:19:05 -0000
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
- Cc: Jim Davis <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>, jrd3@alum.mit.edu
At 9:12 AM on Monday, March 08, 1999, Jim Davis wrote: > John this is pretty interesting but I think you're going > about it in the wrong order.. First you need to show why > webdav applications need a representation for structured > documents, then you need to list the requirements, and > only then should you discuss how to do it. ... > For what it's worth, there's work to design an interoperable > compound/structured document model and API in the DMA > community, but I am not part of it. Unfortunately this is > an industrial consortium no[t] accessible to the public, but > perhaps there's someone on this list who knows about it As chair of the Document Management Alliance (DMA) Technical Committee, I can confirm that we have a subcommittee in the process of designing object model extensions to DMA 1.0 in support of compound and structured documents. Contrary to Jim's statement above, DMA welcomes public participation in its meetings and email discussions. Voting privileges in DMA are limited to full members of DMA, but anyone can become a member by paying the annual membership fee. Non-voting guest memberships are also available. DMA members today include a number of software vendors, industry analysts, and public and private end user organizations. The Compound/Structured Documents Subcommittee has produced several working papers and more recently a set of requirements that should lead to formal proposals for extensions to DMA 1.0. Most of the business of the subcommittee is done through email, although there are also periodic conference calls to review the status of the subcommittee's work. Please contact me if you would like to participate in this work, or just learn more about this work or DMA in general. --Chuck Fay FileNET Corporation, 3565 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa, CA 92626 phone: (714) 966-3513, fax: (714) 662-5076, email: cfay@filenet.com
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