DITA 1.2 submission to TC administrator

Hi, Mary.

 

Here is the information specified in section 3.4 of the OASIS
Technical Committee Process. Please let me know if there is any additional
information that you need.

 

(a) Link to
the approved committee specification

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/39760/DITA1.2-cs01.zip

(b) Editable version of specification

Included
in the ZIP file above 

(c)
Certification

The
OASIS DITA Technical Committee certifies that all schema and XML instances
included in the specification, whether by inclusion or reference, are well
formed, and that all expressions are valid. 

(d) Summary of the specification

The
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) 1.2 specification defines both a)
a set of document types for authoring and organizing topic-oriented
information; and b) a set of mechanisms for combining, extending, and
constraining document types. 

DITA
1.2 includes the following new features and functionality, in addition to
enhancements to existing elements and architecture: 

 
Keys
     and key references 

 
Enhancements
     to the conref mechanism 

 
Constraint
     modules 

 
Learning
     and training specialization 

 
New
     map specialization for defining controlled vocabularies and taxonomies 

 
Machine
     industry task 

(e) Relationship of
this specification to other OASIS standards

The
work of the OASIS DocBook Technical Committee and the OASIS Open Document
Format Technical Committee is focused on the realm of documentation. However,
the goals and design of DITA provide different capabilities for potentially
wider use. To our knowledge, this specification has no relationship to any
other work of other OASIS technical committees or other standard-developing organizations.

(f)
Statements of use

·        
Cisco:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201010/msg00070.html

·        
Comtech
Services, Inc: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201010/msg00058.html

·        
IBM:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201010/msg00060.html

·        
JustSystems
Canada, Inc: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201010/msg00069.html

·        
PTC:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201010/msg00061.html

·        
Really
Strategies, Inc: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201010/msg00062.html

·        
SDL:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201010/msg00074.html

(g)
Public review

 
The
     public review of the DITA 1.2 committee draft occurred 7 July 2010 - 5
     September 2010. 

·        
Formal
announcement of the public review: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201007/msg00001.html

·        
Public
review comments and their resolution: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/39742/DITA1.2-public-review-comments.pdf

(h) Account of voting
to approve the draft as a committee specification

During
6-13 October 2010, 100% of the voting members of the DITA TC voted to approve
DITA 1.2 as a committee specification. 

Here
is a link to the ballot: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/ballot.php?id=1953

(i) Earlier attempts
to standardize substantially the same specification

None

(j) Comments archive for the DITA TC

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/

(k)
Minority reports

None

 

Best regards,

Kris

Kristen
James Eberlein l DITA
Architect and Technical Specialist l SDL
Structured Content Technologies Division l (t) + 1
(919) 682-2290 l 

 

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