Attendees: Geoff Judd, Bob McGrath, Mike Beckerle

We discussed the "consolidated" document, w.r.t. folding in missing sections.

We discussed that updating the sections on  conversions, and extensions should wait for current work on conversions and groups to draw some conclusion.

We discussed that the arrays material needs to be segmented to fit the outline of basic material vs. detailed material.  Bob said he'll try to do that or at least make notes in it about areas where there is uncertainty about where a section should go.

Geoff will check with Steve Hanson about folding in the properties document. The latest IBM-internal version of this document needs at least to be stripped of IBM-specific material before we publish it to the WG.

The big properties list will again raise the issue of how to segment into core + extra packages, and what is core and what is extension. That's ok, we need to have that discussion. There are several sections such as the work Geoff lead on optionals/default/nullable, etc. and also on wildcard behavior that need to get folded in, but without the properties to refer to it's very unclear how to put these sections in.  They are in some sense about the meanings of specific groups of properties and their interactions.

Question for the group: does anyone have anything written about layering and hidden layers that is newer than last september's "draft" document. There was material there about layering that I did not bring forward into the "consolidated" document yet because I wasn't sure if it was still current or not..


Mike Beckerle
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