[CAVO] OASIS EML Section 3

[Lawrence Rosen]

David and others, 

 

Given that this OASIS WG has sort of quieted down, have any in that group considered moving this activity to a W3C Community Group? That's easy and free. And fully compatible with open source. 

 

Of course, building a community to work on open standards is even more difficult than building open source software that implements those standards. 

 

/Larry

 

 

From: Lawrence Rosen [mailto:lrosen at rosenlaw.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 11:38 AM
To: 'CAVO'
Cc: Lawrence Rosen
Subject: Re: [CAVO] OASIS EML Section 3

 

That's a great activity! 

 

Would you like to invite the OASIS WG participants onto the CAVO list? They're obviously part of this open source community. They might want to teach us something.

 

/Larry

 

 

From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:david at drrw.info] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 9:10 PM
To: CAVO
Subject: [CAVO] OASIS EML Section 3

 

http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v5.0/os/EML-Process-Data-Requirements-v5.0.pdf  

 

FYI - Section 3 - overview of election process.

 

This is good conceptual view of all the moving parts.  Where it gets weird of course is aligning this with the 5,000 ways elections are done here in the USA.

 

It's not hard - but people love to make it so - as the IEEE is doing with their 1622 initiative that has sadly taken a swerve off into a bad place WRT to XML they are generating from models.

 

Aside: I know - I've told them that is a really bad idea - I've told them not even the OMG is doing it that way - but what do I know - I'm not a UML modeler, right!? They shot the messenger.

 

Then I see a couple of online hackathons that are completely reinventing both OASIS EML and Google VIP all over again - and ignoring existing standards work.

 

Ho hum. But we digress.

 

Back to the task in hand - I'm seeing the OASIS work forms a solid foundation for defining a working process for California - informed by actual public standards, that have actually been used successfully in elections in EU, Asia and USA.

 

David

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