ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N372

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TITLE:	Recommendations of December 2002 Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3 in Baltimore
SOURCE:	SC34/WG3
PROJECT:	All WG3 project
PROJECT EDITOR:	All WG3 editors
STATUS:	Recommendations of WG3 meeting in Baltimore
ACTION:
DATE:	12 December 2002
DISTRIBUTION:	SC34 and Liaisons
REFER TO:	SC34 N342
REPLY TO:

Recommendations of December 2002 Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3 in Baltimore

1. DIS 10743 SMDL

WG3 accepts N375 as an incomplete final text of SMDL that conforms to 10744:1997 and asks National Bodies to solicit resources for the work necessary to complete the text.

2. ISO/IEC 10744 HyTime

WG3 accepts WG8/N1985 as the final text of Amendment 1 of 10744 HyTime and requests the Secretariat to forward it for publication. WG3 withdraws Technical Corrigendum 2 to 10744 HyTime on the grounds of lack of resources to complete the work and lack of user demand.

3. ISO/IEC 13240 ISMID

WG3 appoints David Cooper of Antech Systems as Defects Editor for 13240 ISMID. WG3 further thanks the Japanese National Body for N337 and accepts N357 as TC1 for ISMID to rectify the defects identified therein.

4. ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps

WG3 submits N358 as a New Work Item Proposal for additional work items on topic maps. The Editors of the Reference Model are instructed to produce a new draft based on N344 and discussions held in Baltimore and to be continued by email in time for the next meeting. WG3 also requests input from National Bodies regarding the canonical syntax to be used for conformance testing.

WG3 instructs the Editors to prepare a new version of the Standard Application Model based on N356, and issues resolved in Baltimore, and to forward it for publication as a Committee Draft.

WG3 instructs the Editors to prepare a new version of the Roadmap to the Topic Map Standards.

WG3 recommends that the topic map standard be structured as follows:

ISO 13250: Topic Maps Basic concepts. Annexes for XTM, HyTM.
ISO xxxxx: Topic Maps Data Model Standard Application Model. Annexes for deserialization of XTM (and HyTM), and mapping to Topic Maps Reference Model.
ISO xxxxx: Topic Maps Information Aggregation Model Topic Maps Reference Model. (Name still to be finalized.)
ISO xxxxx: Topic Maps Conformance Canonicalization syntax. (Name still to be finalized.)
ISO 18048: Topic Maps Query Language (Note change of name.)
ISO 19756: Topic Maps Constraint Language (Note change of name.)

5. Distribution of Documents

WG3 acknowledges a comment from the UK National Body regarding the publication of N356 less than 2 weeks before the WG meeting and will endeavour to ensure that, in future, numbered documents are distributed in good time before meetings.

6. WG3 Program of Work

WG3 accepts N373 as its Program of Work.

7. Next WG3 meeting

The next WG3 meeting will be held on May 2–5, 2003 in London, England (in connection with IDEAlliance's XML Europe 2003 conference).

8. Acclamations

WG3 expresses its thanks to Patrick Durusau for capturing informal minutes of the meeting and posting them to the WG3 mailing list.