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Agenda for 16 June 2003 TAG teleconference

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Note: The Chair does not expect the agenda to change after close of business (Boston time) Thursday of this week.

1. Administrative (15min)

1. Confirm Chair (SW), Scribe (IJ). Regrets: PC
2. Accept minutes of 9 Jun teleconference?
3. Accept this agenda?
4. Next meeting: 23 June?
5. Face-to-face meeting scheduling details:
   • Monday 1pm start time?
   • Convene for lunch on Monday before Monday start time?
   • On Weds, adjourn at 12:30 or 5pm?
6. Summer meeting planning; see request from Stuart
7. TAG partcipation in XML 2003? See email from Paul

2. Technical (75 mins)

2.1 Architecture document (10 minutes)

The TAG does not expect to discuss the Arch Doc at this meeting, except to review action items.

1. 26 Mar 2003 Working Draft of Arch Doc:
   1. Action DC 2003/01/27: write two pages on correct and incorrect application of REST to an actual web page design. DC requests to withdraw this one.
   2. Action DO 2003/01/27: Please send writings regarding Web services to tag@w3.org. DO grants DC license to cut and paste and put into DC writing.
   3. Action DC 2003/03/17: : Write some text for interactions chapter of arch doc related to message passing, a dual of shared state. DC refers us to Conversations and State

Actions from 2 June meeting:

1. RF to rewrite section 5. Section 5 is expected to be short.
2. TB to rewrite section 4 based on his proposal for rewriting section 4and suggestions from the TAG from 2 Jun teleconf. (Done)
3. CL to make available a draft finding on content/presentation.
4. DO to update description of issue abstractComponentRefs-37
5. SW: to continue work on and make available a draft finding related to the opacity of URIs.
6. NW: Take a stab at proposed new 4.5, wherever it ends up.
7. DO: Write up a couple of paragraphs on extensibility for section 4.
8. IJ: to start incorporating detailed suggestions on Arch Doc made by the TAG (see IRC log for details)

Actions from 9 June meeting:

1. IJ:
   1. compare 3.2 text with RFC2396 version 3; compare and harmonize; leaving about the same amount of text.
   2. add a new 3.x section on allocating URIs; taking some text from rfc2396bis/3.2 and expanding slightly on social aspects.
   3. integrate RF's 3.5 into from RFC2396bis into arch doc section 3.3.
   4. See additional notes in minutes of 9 Jun teleconference
2. DO/PC: Send draft of AC announcement regarding TAG's last call expectations/thoughts to tag@w3.org.

2.2 Findings (20 mins)

See also: findings.

Next steps for draft findings:

• Client handling of MIME headers; see summary of comments.
• URIs, Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET and POST; see summary of comments. See also comments from Larry Masinter.
• How should the problem of identifying ID semantics in XML languages be addressed in the absence of a DTD?

Action IJ 2003/06/09: Turn TB apple story into a finding.

2.3 Issues the TAG intends to discuss (30 mins)

The TAG expects to do a walk-through of the open and pending issues in order to determine:

• Which ones we are near closing
• Which ones we can commit to close w.r.t. last call of the arch doc

Then, we expect to work on issues we think we are near closing.

2.4 New issues? (10 mins)

Summary from Stuart

2.5 Issues that have associated action items

• rdfmsQnameUriMapping-6
  • Action DC 2003/02/06: Propose TAG response to XML Schema desideratum (RQ-23).
• whenToUseGet-7
  • Next step for revised draft finding?
• namespaceDocument-8
  • Action TB 2003/04/07: Prepare RDDL Note. Include in status section that there is TAG consensus that RDDL is a suitable format for representations of an XML namespace. Clean up messy section 4 of RDDL draft and investigate and publish a canonical mapping to RDF. See TB's 1 June version.
  • Action PC 2003/04/07: Prepare finding to answer this issue, pointing to the RDDL Note. See comments from Paul regarding TB theses.
  • Refer to draft TAG opinion from Tim Brayon the use of URNs for namespace names.
    • RF: Folks assume that because the specs say so, URNs will be persisitent. But persistence is a function of institutional commitment and frequency of use.
• uriMediaType-9
  • IANA appears to have responded to the spirit of this draft (see email from Chris Lilley).What's required to close this issue?
  • Action CL 2003/05/05: Propose CL's three changes to registration process to Ned Freed. [What forum?]
• URIEquivalence-15
  • SW proposal: Track RFC2396bis where Tim Bray text has been integrated. Comment within the IETF process. Move this issue to pending state.
• HTTPSubstrate-16
  • Action RF 2003/02/06: Write a response to IESG asking whether the Web services example in the SOAP 1.2 primer is intended to be excluded from RFC 3205
  • See message from Larry Masinter w.r.t. Web services.
• errorHandling-20
  • Action CL 2003/02/06: Write a draft finding on the topic of (1) early/late detection of errors (2) late/early binding (3) robustness (4) definition of errors (5) recovery once error has been signaled. Due first week of March.
• xlinkScope-23
  • Status report?
  • See draft, and SW message to CG chairs.
• contentTypeOverride-24
  • Next step on finding "Client handling of MIME headers"
  • Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Version 1.0, section 2.2.2 External Reference by URI
• contentPresentation-26
  • Action CL 2003/02/06: Create a draft finding in this space. Due 3 March.
• IRIEverywhere-27
  • Action CL 2003/04/07: Revised position statement on use of IRIs. CL says to expect this by 21 April.
  • Action TBL 2003/04/28: Explain how existing specifications that handle IRIs are inconsistent. TBL draft not yet available on www-tag.
  • See TB'sproposed step forward on IRI 27.
• fragmentInXML-28 : Use of fragment identifiers in XML.
  1. Connection to content negotiation?
  2. Connection to opacity of URIs?
  3. No actions associated / no owner.
• binaryXML-30
  • Action TB 2003/02/17: Write to www-tag with his thoughts on adding to survey.
  • Next steps to finding? See summary from Chris.
• metadataInURI-31
  • Action SW 2003/02/06: Draft finding for this one. See SW proposal
  • See also TB email on Apple Music Store and use of URI schemes instead of headers
• xmlIDSemantics-32
  • See Chris Lilley draft finding.
    Action NW 2003/05/05: Point Core WG to CL finding once made public.
• xmlFunctions-34
  • Action TBL 2003/02/06: State the issue with a reference to XML Core work. See email from TimBL capturing some of the issues.
• siteData-36
  • Action TBL 2003/02/24 : Summarize siteData-36
• abstractComponentRefs-37
  • See issue description from David Orchard. Next steps?

3. Other actions

• Action IJ 2003/02/06: Modify issues list to show that actions/pending are orthogonal to decisions. IJ and PLH making substantial progress on this; hope to have something to show in May.