ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 N0077
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 - Document Description Languages
TITLE: | Resolution of FCD 15445 ballot comments |
SOURCE: | Editors of ISO/IEC 15445 |
PROJECT: | JTC1.18.67 HTML |
STATUS: | Submitted for NB approval. |
REFERENCES: | SC34 N0010 Final CD Text for ISO/IEC 15445 (ISO HTML) |
SC34 N0011 Final CD Ballot for ISO/IEC 15445 (ISO HTML) | |
Final Draft International Standard ISO/IEC 15445 (ISO HTML) | |
ACTION: | Review for approval. |
DATE: | March 18th, 1999 |
DISTRIBUTION: | SC34 |
Comments were received from the National Bodies of Japan and the UK. The editors also received editing instructions from Mr. John Spangler of the ISO.
All 8 comments are accepted. The editors wish to thank the Japanese NB experts for their careful reading of FCD 15445 which has much improved the quality of the text.
The editors have received editing instructions from Mr. John Spangler of the ISO regarding ISO-HTML. These have been applied where possible, but there are some exceptions. The exceptions are listed in the annex to this contribution. We would like to draw the attention of NB experts to the importance of points 1) and 2) in the reply to Mr. Spangler.
Following application of the NB comments and the ISO editing instructions, your editors have prepared the Final Draft International Standard for submission to the SC34 secretariat.
NB experts wishing to bookmark the Final Draft International Standard should use the Permanent URL: http://purl.org/NET/ISO+IEC.15445/15445.html. This URL is indirect and is resolved at the moment of reference to an ephemeral physical reference. Some popular browsers, when asked to "bookmark" a document, bookmark the physical reference. It may be necessary to use the bookmark facilities of the browser to establish the correct Permanent URL.
NOTE: The User's Guide to ISO/IEC 15445 is available at http://purl.org/NET/ISO+IEC.15445/Users-Guide.html. This is not an ISO/IEC document.
Files containing the SGML Declaration and the Document Type Definition specified by ISO/IEC 15445 (ISO-HTML) are also available:
The following text is a draft of an e-mail reply that the editors have prepared to be sent to Mr. John Spangler of the ISO in reply to his editing instructions.
Hello John, David Abrahamson and I are the two co-editors of ISO/IEC 15445, aka ISO-HTML. This project is original in a number of ways, and we would like to seek your advice on the correct manner of applying your editing instructions dated 99.03.01. Our document is marked up using ISO/IEC 15445 ISO-HTML and we have developed a style sheet which follows the directives as closely as possible. However some differences remain. 1) ISO-HTML makes normative reference to the W3C Recommendation for HTML 4.0. The reference version of HTML 4.0 is the electronic version, not the paper. We refer only to certain clauses of HTML 4.0 and we do this electronically from our reference version, which is again electronic. 2) The ISO/IEC will not own the technical content of this Standard, which belongs to the W3C. We have worked closely with the W3C, and the editor of the W3C Recommendation for HTML 4.0 participated in our editing work as an Invited Expert, advising us on the excerpts of the Recommendation that we should use. All of the core content of FDIS 15445 is already freely distributed by the W3C and we believe that it is essential to have the same free HTML-based delivery for ISO/IEC 15445. A PDF document, although electronic, would not be satisfactory for the many W3C readers - ISO-HTML is already being used as a starting point for further work in the W3C on Mobile Access to the WWW. Since ISO-HTML uses material which is already copyrighted by others we use the copyright statement Copyright (C) 1999 IETF, W3C (MIT, Inria, Keio), ISO/IEC, Roger Price, David Abrahamson. All Rights Reserved. Notice: Because the U.S. Department of Energy has supported the development of SC34's standards (under contract DE-AC05-84OR21400), it makes the following assertion: The U.S. Government retains a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of these documents, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, or to allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. NOTE: The inclusion of our names is _not_ intended to restrict in any way the ISO/IEC use and sale of ISO-HTML, nor the NB right to publish and sell: we seek to ensure that nothing we have written or developed for the standard can be stolen and copyrighted by anyone else. Experience with the development of software on the Internet shows that "leakage" is inevitable and that such protection is essential, throughout the entire life of the software. 3) The paper version of ISO-HTML which you have seen is obtained from the "print" facility of a browser. Although a printout is sometimes convenient, we believe that the full practical usefulness of ISO-HTML comes from the close integration with HTML 4.0 provided by the "point and click" functionality of a browser reading the HTML. Apart from the internal procedures of JTC1, we have never been asked for a paper version. 4) The cover letter of the editing instructions asks for camera-ready copy. Is this needed for an electronic document, where the paper version consists only of the cover page, which is created by the ISO/CS? 5) The editing instructions call for separate pages for the title page (p.i), the foreword (p.iii), the introduction (p.iv) and clause 1 (p.1), however in an HTML document, the entire document is a single page, without page numbering. 6) The instructions call for a title at the top of page 1. It seems unnatural to find another document title in the "middle" of an HTML page. 7) The even and odd headers the instructions ask for are not possible with ISO-HTML and CSS1. We have a simple Unix-based development process for ISO-HTML documents. This is described in the ISO-HTML User's Guide which, although not part of the ISO/IEC Standard, we would be very happy to share with the ISO/CS. Best Regards, Roger _____________________________________________________________________ Roger Price Dept of Computer Science, UMass Lowell
rprice@cs.uml.edu
david@cs.tcd.ie