At 2009-04-26 21:51 +0100, Anthony B. Coates (DES) wrote:
>It's a good question. It's definitely scope creep in one sense, the sense
>that it takes CVA beyond the bounds of code lists, and beyond the scope of
>the CLRTC. At the same time, it's obvious that it's exactly what users
>would want to do. Why should they care about what our internal OASIS
>scope boundaries are?
Agreed.
>Still, as an OASIS TC, we have to give some thought to scope. I seem to
>remember we discussed this issue once before, and I suggested two
>possibilities:
>
> 1) create a separate OASIS TC to carry forward the extension of CVA into
>something bigger, with a scope beyond code lists. That would parallel the
>way the CLRTC was spun off the UBL TC;
True, but I think that was a much cleaner definition of a topic scope
suitable for a new TC. I'm very reluctant to trigger the overhead of
a new technical committee whose scope would probably only be the one
extension of this schema and nothing else.
> 2) allow for this functionality in the CVA Schema, but document it
>non-normatively (at least in an official sense) in an appendix to its
>spec, so that the normative part is within scope.
Kewl idea! But in the conformance section while such non-code-list
constraints would be entirely optional, if they were present they
would need to conform to the committee definition and schema components.
I think your suggestion can justify keeping it in the one CVA specification.
>Perhaps someone from OASIS could suggest what is best. Mary?
Thanks for your thoughts on this, Mary!
. . . . . . . . . Ken
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