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TAG face-to-face meeting, 11-13 December 2006, Cambridge, MA, USA

Nearby: issues list - findings - www-tag archive - tag archive - pending actions

1. Logistics

Venue

W3C/MIT
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
32 Vassar St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

Directions, more directions, map

Tel: +1 (617) 253 2613

We will use two meeting rooms:

• Monday: room G631 located directly above the W3C area on the 5th floor
• Tuesday & Wednesday: CSAIL Board room (room 601), located off a corridor between the Gate and Dreyfoos towers on the 6th floor
  

Schedule

Monday 11 Dec.: 9:00 - 17:30
Tuesday 12 Dec.: 9:00 - 17:30
Wednesday 13 Dec.: 9:00 - 15:00

2. Recommended readings

• Draft finding: Passwords in the Clear (13 Nov. 06)
• Draft finding: The use of Metadata in URIs (4 Dec. 06)
• Draft finding: Extending and Versioning Languages Part 1 (29 Sep. 06)
• Draft finding: Associating Resources with Namespaces (13 Dec. 05)
• Note: Storing Data in Documents: The Design History and Rationale for GRDDL
• Draft: Data on the Web (8 Dec. 06)

3. Agenda

3.1. Administrative

Convene, take roll, review agenda

Regrets: TV, Norm will participate remotely on Monday, Dave will arrive around 11:30 on Monday

Appoint scribes for the three days:
Mon am: NM, pm: ER, Tue am: HT, pm: DC, Wed am: NW, pm:TBL

Approve minutes of previous teleconference (21 Nov.)

Next teleconference: 19 Dec. regrets: ?, scribe (propose Noah)

Next f2f: should we pencil a date (around mid-March 2007) and a location before the election of new members?

Accept this agenda?

TAG participation in the Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing

3.2. Issue passwordsInTheClear-52

Discussion of the latest draft finding (11 Dec. 06)

Suggestion from Noah for new section.

Pending action:

• ER, accepted on 21 Nov 2006: Produce a new version with these changes.

3.3. Issue metadataInURI-31

New draft finding (4 Dec. 2006), announcement -- reviewers: Dan, Ed.

Could we approve this as the final version?

Pending actions:

• DC, accepted on 4 Oct 2006: Review security section on risks of serving executables as .jpeg to metadataInURI draft. Confirmed on 14 Nov 2006.
• NM, accepted on 14 Nov 2006: Rework metadataInURI 1st example to be more explicit as per Tim's suggestion, and update GPN per Dan's suggestion.
• HT, accepted on 14 Nov 2006: Seek a copy of the official court record of the UK case on ../../ etc.

3.4. Issue whenToUseGet-7

See WS-Transfer Submission

See also issue endPointRefs-47

Last action (24 Oct. 2006): message from Tim, WS-Transfer and HTTP, re TAG Issues whenToUseGet-7 & endPointRefs-47

What is the next step?

TAG participation in the Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing

3.5. Issue XMLVersioning-41

How to resume progress on this issue? We could consider breaking up the draft finding (29 Sep. 2006)

Pending actions:

• VQ, accepted on 3 Mar 2006: Write to www-tag about CSS versioning being a problem "levels"
• DC, accepted on 8 Aug 2006: Review definitions of partial understanding, backward compatible, and forward compatible
• HT, accepted on 5 Oct 2006: Henry to extend his paper to a definition of monotonicity and its relevance to our versioning finding.
• DC, accepted on 5 Oct 2006: Capture UML diagram for the minutes [of Vancouver f2f]

3.6. Issue TagSoupIntegration-54

Anything new on this issue? What happened at the Backplane meeting?

Last discussion: 7 Nov. 2006

3.7. Issue namespaceDocument-8

How to get organized to make progress on the draft finding?

See draft finding Associating Resources with Namespaces (13 Dec. 2005, Norm ed.)

See proposed update from Norm

See RDDL: new natures and thread (new natures document)

See latest discussion and request from the GRDDL WG: "follow your nose from XML documents to namespace documents?"

Pending actions:

• HT, accepted on 6 Sep 2005: track progress of #int bug 1974 in the XML Schema namespace document in the XML Schema WG
• NW, accepted on 10 Jan 2006: propose to Jonathan Borden that he changes to using a file of Natures.
• TBL, accepted on 5 Oct 2006: With Norm, draft semantic web architecture stories and such.

3.8. Issue xmlFunctions-34

Could we start drafting a TAG finding on this issue?

Pending actions:

• NW, accepted on 6 Dec 2005: with help from HT, produce a draft finding on XML functions in January [2006]
• TVR, accepted on 27 Feb 2006: summarize history of DTD/namespace/mimetype version practice, including XHTML, SOAP, and XSLT
• TBL, accepted on 27 Feb 2006: write a short email to make his point so we capture this for future

3.9. Issue RDFinXHTML-35

What is the next step on this issue?

Not much discussion in the TAG during the last 12 months.

See Note from Dan

3.10. Semantic Web Architecture

We need to get the TAG to focus more on the semantic Web. What could be done in addition to the above issues?

See Data on the Web by Norm

3.11. Issue xml11Names-46

Status update

Last discussion: 31 Jan 2006

Pending actions:

• NW, accepted on 4 Oct 2005: Check on current status of issue xml11Names-46 with XML CG
• HT, accepted on 7 Feb 2006: Bring us back to xml11Names-46 after the XML Schema WG publishes its expected Last Call WD.

3.12. Priorities and plans

What are our priorities for the next months?

A few people may be leaving in February. Could we try to finish the work they are involved in?

Review pending actions

Reassign issues owned by those who will be leaving.