Vote on a Committee Draft, ISO/IEC FCD 13250

 

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, Document Description and Processing Languages

Secretariat: USA - ANSI

 

ISO/IEC FCD 13250,

Reference number: ISO/JTC 1/SC 34 N0009

 

Date of circulation: 1998-10-30

 

Closing date: 1999-02-26

 

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

 

__ APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT AS PRESENTED

_X_ APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT WITH COMMENTS AS GIVEN BELOW (use separate page as annex, if necessary)

__ general

__ technical

_X_ editorial: see attachment

__ DISAPPROVAL OF THE DRAFT FOR REASONS BELOW (use separate page as annex, if necessary)

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

__ ABSTENTION (for reasons below):

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P-member voting (National Body/Acronym): JP

 

Date: 1999-01-20

 

Submitted by (Name/Signature): Dr. Yushi Komachi

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Secretariat ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34,Marisa Topping, mtopping@ansi.org

 

 

________________Attchment____________________

Japan's Comments on ISO/IEC FCD 13250 (SC34 N0008)


Title: Topic Navigation Maps

The National Body of Japan approves the Final Committee Draft of Topic Navigation Maps (ISO/IEC FCD 13250, SC34 N0008) with the following comments.


Source: The National Body of Japan

Status: Comments appended to the Approval Vote for ISO/IEC FCD 13250

NOTE: Most of those comments had been forwarded to the Project Editors for preliminary discussion in the last SC34/WG3 meeting.

Date : Jan. 20, 1999




(1) Topic Map

The terminology "Topic Map" occurred in many clauses, e.g., 4.20, should be replaced with "Topic Navigation Map" or "TNM" to avoid a terminology confusion.

(2) 3 Normative references

The clause of "3 Normative references" should includes:

(3) 4.1 Added scoping topics

The "data attribute" should be explained more clearly.

(4) this Standard

The wording "this Standard" occurred in many clauses, e.g., 6.1.2.7, 6.1.2.8, etc., should be replaced with "this International Standard".

(5) 6.2.1 Public Association Type References, para 2

The description
"In the above format specification, the registration indicator, public text class and language fields are as specified for formal public identifiers in ISO/IEC 8879:1986."
should be
"In the above format specification, the registration indicator, public text class and language fields are as specified for formal public identifiers in ISO 8879:1986 and ISO/IEC 9070:1991.".

(6) Annex B

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/n1957 should be ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4 N1957.

(7) NOTE

In the PDF version, NOTEs are clearly specified. In the HTML version, however, there is no NOTE indication. Even in the HTML version, NOTEs should be specified.

(8) Notation Clause

There should be a Notation Clause, which clarifies the meanings of

(9) Identical Wordings

Avoid the following identical wordings not to cause a confusion: