Vote on Committee Draft ISO/IEC 13250-2

Date of circulation:
2003-10-23

Closing date:
2004-01-23

Reference number ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 N443

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Information Technology -- Document Description and Processing Languages

Secretariat: Canada (SCC)

Circulated to P-members of the committee for voting

Please return all votes and comments in electronic form directly to the SC 34 Secretariat by the due date indicated.

ISO/IEC 13250-2

Title: Topic Maps -- Data Model

Vote:

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APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT AS PRESENTED

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APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT WITH COMMENTS AS GIVEN ON THE ATTACHED

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general:

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technical:

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editorial:

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DISAPPROVAL OF THE DRAFT FOR REASONS ON THE ATTACHED

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Acceptance of these reasons and appropriate changes in the text will change our vote to approval

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ABSTENTION (FOR REASONS BELOW):

P-member voting:

Japan

Date:

2004-01-01

Submitted by:

Yushi KOMACHI

Address Reply to: G. Ken Holman, Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34,
Crane Softwrights Ltd., Box 266, Kars, ON Canada K0A-2E0
Telephone: +1(613)489-0999; Facsimile: +1(613)489-0995; E-Mail: jtc1sc34@scc.ca


Attachment:
Japan's Comments on CD 13250-2 (SC34 N443, N459)

1. Technical

The descriptions on HyTime should be deleted, in accordance with the WG3 Recommendation 6 approved in the Philadelphia meeting.

2. Editorial

(1) 2 Normative references

"The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0" should be replaced with "The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0", which is the latest version.

ISO/IEC 10646 should be added as a Normative reference.

(2) 3 Terms and definitions

Only the data-model specific terms should be defined in this clause. Generic terms of ISO/IEC 13250 should be defined in "3 Terms and definitions" of Part 1.

In 3.7, "fundamental types" should be "fundamental type", since a term should be defined as singular.

In 3.26, the sentence "The topic thus ... of the topic." should be described as a NOTE of 3.26.

(3) Figures

All the figures should be accompanied with their numbers and captions.

(4) 6.7 Merging association role items

Clarify the procedure more comprehensibly.

(5) 7 Published subjects

The clause "7 Published subjects" should be moved to Part 1 of ISO/IEC 13250, since the clause specifies generic issues of ISO/IEC 13250.