WPC2 2B Z ?0I Meeting Notes X3L8 12/5-7/94 Bruce BargmeyerBruce Bargmeyer   HP LaserJet 4Si/4Si MXHPPCL5EXx6X@X@ЫXx6X@X@< 9Z .Courier New RegularX2(03|x Meeting Notes X3L8 Special Interest Group Meeting Held at National Institute of Standards and Technology May 8 9, 1995  Attendees: Bruce Bargmeyerhh#EPA Larry Fitzwaterhh#EPA Dan Gillman hh#Bureau of Census Alan Goldfine hh#NIST Paul Hawes hh#Bellcore Joe Leahy` `  hh#SAIC William Kenworthey, Jr.hh#Self Kathy Miles hh#NIST Judith Newton hh#NIST Phong Ngo` `  hh#SAIC Bert Parker hh#MITRE Jim Pipher hh#DISA David Stowell hh#Stowell and Associates, Inc. The following reports the issues raised and decisions made: 1. World Wide Web Page for X3L8 Frank Olken set up a draft World Wide Web Home Page for X3L8. The committee reviewed a copy and made the following comments.  a. Put paragraph in describing X3L8. To be supplied by Bruce Bargmeyer  b. Put doclinks in for draft documents. Initially the documents will be in text form. C. Convert documents to html, where practical  e. Decision: We will not put any documents up on the FTP server that we do not want to have world accessible. F. Run Home Page document through speller.  g. If possible on WWW, provide capability on Home Page to specify download of the document file.  h. Page 2, Mail reflector internalwe will use X3L8". Leave this one off the Web page. I. Page 2, Mail reflector externalcall this: X3L8news.  j. For any person referenced, if they do not have a Home Page, highlight name and send reference to (if possible, right part of) the address list.  k. Add description of the reflector and how to get on it (send mail to Goldfine)  l. Upcoming meetings should be at ITI (formerly CBEMA) rather than vice versa (fix in two places).  m. On Web Home Page give people the chance to subscribe to X3L8news reflector. n. Need extract from annual report showing what we did last year. o. Bert will send Frank Olken a reference to CDIF home page. p. Delete PCTE from Activity section.  q. Dan Gillman will send Frank the URL for the FGDC homepage (re: the GIS reference on first page) 2. X3L8 reflector Alan Goldfine is ready to turn the reflector on. The internal reflector will be called X3L8. This will be for X3L8 members and observers and liaisons only. The external reflector will be called X3L8news. This will be the first reflector implemented and will include the current distribution lists. Alan will check to see if NIST has software to allow people to automatically subscribe and unsubscribe. At the SC14/WG4 meeting we will determine whether or not to develop a SC14/WG4 reflector that could be generalized to SC14 after the SC14 meeting. Contributions are solicited for improvements. 3. ISO/IEC 11179 Part 1. Paul Hawes will present Part 1 at the WG4 meeting. Dan Gillman prepared a paper describing issues to be resolved. These will be discussed at the WG4 meeting. US positions:  a. Property vs. attribute. Agreed that we will use property rather than the term attribute in the Stockholm diagram.  b. Move diagram in figure B2 from informative annex to normative part of standard. Therefore must drop the generic data element, since it is not part of the standard.  c. Use Property Class rather than property to be consistent with Part 2. This decision needs to be propagated to Part 5, also. 4. ISO/IEC Part 2. Bill Kenworthey passed out Part 2, Annex 1, Object taxonomy. He has drawn this together from many sources. To better understand the taxonomy, we discussed where a number of things could be located. Bill will also bring copies of the property taxonomy to the WG4 meeting. 5. Report on CDIF Kathy Miles has replaced Tammy Kirkendall. Kathy gave us a status report on the CDIF 6. ISO/IEC 11179 Part 6 Phong Ngo presented the April version of Part 6. Comments have been received from Wil Van den Bragt and Denis Hill. The primary issue from X3L8 is determination of the workability of ISO 6523 for the Registration Authority ID. Bert Parker presented a paper that could be modified to be a support document for Part 6. It discusses how a registration authority could be set up. The discussion covers procedures as well as various roles and responsibilities. Several suggestions for improvements were made. Decision: Propose to WG4 a potential for developing supporting documents for ISO 11179 Parts, e.g., Part 6. If desirable, determine what type of document that they should be (e.g., technical report or tutorial) and determine what kind of review and approval process there needs to be. If development of support documents is determined to be desirable, we will need to make sure the content agrees with the standard and that the committee members agree. 7. Discussion of SC14/WG4 meeting in Rio We covered arrangements for the meetings. A subgroup met to discuss the agenda. 8. ISO 6523 CD ballot The ballot is due June 1, 1994. Bruce Bargmeyer moved and Paul Hawes seconded that we vote Approval of the registration and draft as presented. Members not at the meeting will be polled by phone and the ballot response will be sent to Barbara Bennett. 9. Comments were received from the ISO DIS Ballot. The ballot passed 19 in favor, 2 opposed, 4 abstained. Comments will be resolved at the WG4 meeting. 10. Metamodel discussion Paul Hawes presented changes to the metamodel. Issues and resolutions are recorded in the metamodel issues document issuesmm.txt on the FTP server (see below). Also agreed re: metamodel presentation: Representation is more than just value domain. Therefore the bottom of the metamodel should be labeled Representation. 11. Next meetings: X3L8 SIG Meetings and X3L8 Plenary meeting: Place: Information Technology Industry (ITI) Council 2nd Floor 1250 Eye Street Washington, D.C. Tuesday, June 13, 1995 SIG Meeting Wednesday, June 14, 1995 SIG Meeting Thursday, June 15, 1995 X3L8 Plenary X3L8 SIG Meetings: Place: National Institute of Standards and Technology Wednesday, July 19 Building 225, Room B157, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admin. Bldg., Dining Room C Thursday, July 20 Admin. Bldg., Room B113, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admin. Bldg., Dining Room C Friday, July 21 Admin. Bldg., Room B113, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admin. Bldg., Dining Room C Wednesday, September 13 Building 225, Room B157, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. No dining room for lunch Thursday, September 14 Building 225, Room B157, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admin. Bldg., Dining Room AFriday, September 15 Building 225, Room B157, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admin. Bldg., Dining Room A X3L8 documents, including this meeting report, are available via Anonymous FTP from speckle.ncsl.nist.gov. Change directory to X3L8 and check the "readme" file for details.