Very funny. (At least, I'm assuming this is
intended to be funny. But I can't really tell, as I'm not a native speaker
of English).
You may have noted that some of the co-proposers of this
charter are native speakers of
English.
I will check again, but as far as I know it was one of them that
actually proposed this abbreviation. I never questioned the abbreviation as I only got
involved in the discussions when the abbreviation "BusDox" was already
there.
FYI, there is also an
OASIS DITA BusDocs SC.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita-busdocs
DITA BusDocs means
"DITA Enterprise Business Documents SC"
It looks like the
vast majority of the members of this SC are native speakers of
English.
A quick Internet
search seems to show that BIZdocs is some trademark, so it would violate the
following TC process rule:
"The name of the TC,
such name not to have been previously used for an OASIS TC and not to include
any trademarks or service marks not owned by OASIS".
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php
I'm tempted to
continue but I think I should stop
here.
From: Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
[mailto:]
Sent: 27 October 2010 17:27
To:
Subject: RE:
[oasis-charter-discuss] Re: Proposed Charter for OASIS Business Document
Exchange (BusDox) TC
"they will
assume that the work
of the group has something to do with buses
and then puzzle
unfruitfully over what "dox" could refer to."
I didn't have any trouble with "dox". I assume it meant
"docks" and that the spec had to do with where to park buses.
--Ray
