Minutes of CGM Open Telecon - Aug 22, 2002

Participants

Ulrich Laesche, Ematek
Dieter Weidenbruck, ITEDO
Don Larson, Larson S/W Technology
Forrest Carpenter, SDI
Lofton Henderson, CGM Open Program Director
Daneil Drouillet, Bombardier
Franck DuLuc, EADS-Airbus
Kevin O'Kane, Auto-trol
Dave Cruikshank, The Boeing Company

Agenda/Discussion

Plans for Long Beach

All participants were available for a Sunday meeting except for Franck. An additional Wednesday afternoon meeting was discussed that Franck could participate it. It was decided that the TC would meet on Sunday from 9:00 until 5:00 and a determination would be made on Sunday afternoon whether we needed the Wednesday meeting.

SVG vs. GREXCHANGE/WebCGM

CGM Open will hold discussions during the TC meeting about SVG and capabilities with respect to technical documentation. The ATA Graphics Working Group will hold similar discussions during its first session on Monday morning.

Points to cover during the discussion:

• Multi-content hyperlinking
• Highlighting
• Interoperability
• Software availability

Dieter has action item to circulate the technical issue that he has identified before the Long Beach meeting. Lofton and others will contribute comments.

Vendor interoperability during XML 2002 in Baltimore

Questions were raised about whether the right interest groups could be reached at the XML conference. Experience from previous XML conferences has indicated that we probably aren't reaching any new people. CGM Open decided to not do a vendor demo at XML 2002. An alternative would be to gain attention at the ATA Forum in Long Beach. We might plan a special session during the Graphics Working Group meeting to do the interoperability demo. This demo could be a repeat of the one done at XML 2001 with no significant rework required.

Dave has the action item to investigate setting up a vendor booth or hospitality suite at the ATA meetings in Long Beach. (Note: The ATA is charging a $1000 fee for a vendor booth.)

Interoperability project

The first achievable goal in getting this project started in to get a problem logging system in place. Franck will generate a proposed entry form for logging issues and circulate it prior to the Long Beach meeting. Issue resolution date is required on the form.

CGM Open web site vendor information

Bruce Garner is working on the basic vendor information to be posted. It was decided that the vendor information should go on the web site now with the caveat that CGM Open does not guarantee the usefulness or correctness of the products. Once the assessment proformas are available, each vendor will be given 60 days to do a self-assessment and supply the completed proforma for posting on the web site.
Web layout design needs to be done to include this information on the site. Dieter volunteered resources to perform this task. Dieter has action item to provide draft set of pages for the web prior to Long Beach meeting. Lofton circulated his initial cut at defining the proformas that need to be developed, in addition to some preliminary analysis and work on a viewer proforma.

Four proformas need to be analyzed and developed:

• Lofton will continue the viewer proforma
• Dave will do the initial analysis for the generator library proforma
• Forrest will do the initial analysis for the parse library proforma
• Kevin will do the initial analysis for the editor proforma

Initial analysis is due by September 18th for discussion at Long Beach.

Frankfurt action items related to DOM development

Application of CSS to WebCGM

Lofton circulated work he has completed on this item. Everyone has an action item to review this contribution prior to Long Beach. He needs feedback from the technical committee concerning the use scenario and how it might be applied via a viewer.

DOM Core (Cruikshank) and Event Model (Laesche/Larson)

Since the due dates have passed on both of these items, they are now due for review prior to Long Beach. Circulate by September 18th.