I think the first part of section 3.2.7.1 in the datatypes draft can be 
shortened as suggested below. This concerns the value space of the duration 
datatype.

I suggest that first paragraph of the 3.2.7.1 and the following box be replaced 
by the text below.

"Duration values can be modelled as two-property tuples. Each value consists of 
an integer number of months followed by a decimal number of seconds. The seconds 
value MUST not be negative of the months value is positive and MUST not be 
positive if the months value is negative."

Editorial concerning
Part 2
duration

Transition history
raised on 27 Aug 2004 by Ashok Malhotra (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/
w3c-xml-schema-ig/2004Aug/0074.html)
agreed on 19 Nov 2004 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/
2004Nov/0100.html)

RESOLVED: Ashok's recommendation approved as amended (leave the box alone)

Acknowledgment cycle
announced by group on 19 Nov 2004 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-
schema-ig/2004Nov/0100.html)
agreement by reviewer on 19 Nov 2004 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-
xml-schema-ig/2004Nov/0100.html)

agreed on 29 Apr 2005 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/
2005May/0000.html)

DE had a comment on the locution "the second property" which is misleading. MSM 
suggested changing properties in duration values to plural to avoid that 
problem. Shouldn't be hard, they are autogenerated.

NM had a suggested change as well (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-
schema-ig/2005Apr/0060.html): "duration is partially ordered. Equality of 
duration is defined in terms of equality of dateTime; order for duration is 
defined in terms of the order of dateTime. Specifically, the equality or order 
of two durations is determined by adding each duration in the pair to each of 
the following four dateTimes:" 

RESOLVED: Dispose of RQ-17 by accepting proposal http://lists.w3.org/Archives/
Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2005Apr/att-0059/wd-17.html__charset_ISO-8859-1 as 
amended to change property names and with paragraph on partial order above.

Action history
Part 2 Editors
accepted on 19 Nov 2004 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/
2004Nov/0100.html)

Editors to attempt to resolve wd-17 in prescribed in the issue and as ammended 
in the telcon in the next working draft.
completed on 29 Apr 2005 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/
2005Apr/att-0059/wd-17.html__charset_ISO-8859-1)