I'm no expert on OGF procedures, but is it accurate to say that comments
on a finalized standard could simply result in recommended changes to
future versions of the standard? Our renderings are also part of the
standard, right?
yes, but Stephen had a different worry. The conceptual model was approved a year ago and the document will not be changed unless there will be a new version. The renderings which will be captured in different OGF documents are not yet formally approved. There are many ways to map the conceptual model into a concrete schema. If some person comments on a change to the LDAP schema, while this is deployed in production, then we will have to decide by consensus if we change the schema which will go into the spec or keep the current version while postponing its revision.
The decision will depend of course on the relevance of the suggested changes.
Perhaps this also has to do with the distinction between a standard
and implementations. Is the statement that OGF produces standards
and NOT implementations, accurate? Other organizations besides OGF
produce implementation that (hopefully) comply with OGF standards,
but none of them is an "OGF implementation".
yes. This is generally true; anyway in our case we talk about concrete schemas which can reasonably be part of a standard as they define the way to structure data to be exchanged and interpreted.
Cheers, Sergio
The GLUE2 schema is final, so comments on it will only affect future
version of the standard. The GLUE2 renderings are NOT final, correct?
Or, is the GLUE2 LDAP rendering final?
JP
On Oct 7, 2010, at 10:02 AM, <
stephen.burke@stfc.ac.uk> <
stephen.burke@stfc.ac.uk> wrote:
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glue-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:
glue-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of
> Sergio Andreozzi said:
>> the minutes from today call are available here:
>
> On the public comment: I have no problem with that per se, but it would
> be rather hard to make any significant changes to the LDAP rendering
> given that we already have it in production!
>
> Stephen
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