[DFDL-WG] Agenda for OGF DFDL WG call 06 January 2010- 13:00 UK (8:00 ET)

Tue Jan 5 09:49:13 CST 2010

A Happy New Year to all WG participants.

1.   045  - Disciminators
Continue discussion with Stephanie and  Bob Connolly 

2. LengthUnits = 'bits' 
Review Mike's updated proposal

3. Selector support in V1

4. Go through remaining actions 

5 Draft 037 review
No more comments received

6 Review Schedule

Activity

Schedule
Who
Complete Action items 

             - 18 Dec 2009 
 WG 
Complete Spec 
Write up work items 
            ? 23 Dec 2009 
AP 
Restructure and complete specification 
              - 23 Dec 2009 
AP 
Issue Draft 038 
23 Dec 2009

WG review 
WG review 
7 Dec ? 08 Jan 2010 
WG 
Incorporate review comments 
4 Jan - 29 Jan 2010 
AP + 
Issue Draft 039 
15 Jan 2010

Incorporate review comments 
4 Jan - 29 Jan 2010 
AP + 
Issue Draft 040 
29 Jan 2010

Initial OGF Editor Review 
Initial Editor review 
1 Feb - 1 Mar 2010 
OGF 
Initial GFSG review 
1 Feb - 1 Mar 2010

Issue Draft 041 
1 Mar 2010

OGF Public Comment period (60 days) 

1 Mar - 30 Apr 2010 
OGF 
OGF 28 Munich 

15-19 March 2010 

Incorporate comments 
Incorporate comments 
28 May 2010

Issue Draft 042 
28 May 2010

Final OGF Editor Review 
Final  Editor review 
June  2010 
OGF 
final GFSG review 
June  2010

Issue Final specification 
30 June 2010

Publish proposed recommendation 

1 July 2010

Grid recommendation process 

1 Jan - 1 April 2011

Current Actions: 
No
Action 

045
20/05 AP: Speculative Parsing 
27/05: Psuedo code has been circulated. Review for next call 
03/06: Comments received and will be incorporated 
09/06: Progress but not discussed 
17/06: Discussed briefly 
24/06: No Progress 
01/07: No Progress 
15/07: No progress. MB not happy with the way the algorithm is documented, 
need to find a better way. 
29/07: No Progress 
05/08: No Progress. Will document behaviour as a set of rules. 
12/08: No Progress 
... 
16/09: no progress 
30/09: AP distributed proposal and others commented. Brief discussion AP 
to incorporate update and reissue 
07/10: Updated proposal was discussed.Comments will be incorporated into 
the next version. 
14/10: Alan to update proposal to include array scenario where minOccurs > 
0 
21/10: Updated proposal reviewed 
28/10: Updated proposal reviewed see minutes 
04/11: Discussed semantics of disciminators on arrays. MB to produce 
examples 
11/11: Absorbing action 033 into 045.  Maybe decorated discrminator kinds 
are needed after all. MB and SF to continue with examples.   
18/11: Went through WTX implementation of example. SF to gather more 
documentation about WTX discriminator rules. 
25/11: Further discussion. Will get more WTX documentation. Need to 
confirm that no changes need to Resolving Uncertainty doc. 
04/11: Further discussion about arrays. 
09/12: Reviewed proposed discriminator semantic. 
16/12: Reviewed discriminator examples and WTX semantic. 
23/12: SF to provide better description of WTX behaviour and invite B 
Connolley to next call 
049
20/05 AP Built-in specification description and schemas 
03/06: not discussed 
24/06: No Progress 
24/06: No Progress (hope to get these from test cases) 
15/07: No progress. Once available, the examples in the spec should use 
the dfdl:defineFormat annotations they provide. 
... 
14/10: no progress 
21/10: Discussed the real need for this being in the specification. It 
seemed that the main value is it define a schema location for downloading 
'known' defaults from the web. 
28/10: no progress 
04/11: no progress 
11/11: no update 
18/11: no update 
25/11: Agreed to try to produce for CSV and fixed formats 
04/12: no update 
09/12: no update 
16/12: no update 
23/12: no update 
056
MB Resolve lengthUnits=bits including fillbytes 
12/08: No Progress 
... 
28/10: no progress 
04/11: MB to look at lengthUnits = bits 
11/11: no update 
18/11: no update 
25/11: no update 
04/12: no update. ALan will set up a separate call to progress this 
action. 
09/12: no update. ALan will set up a separate call to progress this 
action. 
16/12: MB, SH and AP had  a separate call. MB to distribute proposal 
23/12: Discussed proposal. MB will updated 
064
MB/SH Request WG presentation at OGF 28 
25/11: Session requested 
04/12: no update 
09/12: no update 
16/12: SH has changed request to a general session rather tha WG in the 
hope of attracting more people. 
23/12: no update 
066
Investigate format for defining test cases 
25/11:IBM to see if it is possible to publish its test case format. 
04/12: no update 
09/12: no update 
16/12: reminded dent to project manager 
23/12: SH will send another reminder. 
068
Should the roots of messages be designated.? 
09/12: Yes. New dfdl:documentRoot property 
Closed 
16/12: reopened and decided to drop property subject to agreement from SKK 
and SF 
23/12: SKK review decision to drop  dfdl:documentRoot 
071
Semantics of length=0, nil handling and defaults. 
23/12:SH no update 
072
Byte Order Mark and Unicode signature 
23/12: Confirm BOM will be treated and part of the content. 

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