RAD FTF

[Konstantin Beznosov <beznosov@cs.fiu.edu>]

Resource Access Decision Facility Finalization TF will be chartered
during next OMG TC meeting in November.

Those who would like to be on the voting list of the FTF, please let me
know. 

Warning: The votes in the FTF will be done most of the time over e-mail.
One week or so will be given to FTF members to study proposed changes to
the spec and to vote. If an FTF member does not vote by the vote due
date, it will be his/her problem. There is also some rule in P&P that
drops a voting member out of RTF (and I think out of FTF) if the member
missed several (like 2 or 3) voting deadlines.

The following preliminary dates are proposed for the FTF (with
explanations from Andrew Watson's e-mail):

 * A deadline for producing a Draft Adopted Specification. 

 November 22, 1999 (4 weeks before December 20)

    Explanation: "This Draft must
    be made available to all the submission contacts (for checking that
it
    correctly reflects the contents of their submission) and to Linda
    Heaton, OMG Staff Editor (for checking formatting and style). At
this
    point the specification is supposed to look like the Real Thing - a
    complete, publishable OMG specification rather than an RFP
submission.
    This deadline must be at least 21 calendar days before ..."


  * A publication date for the Adopted Specification. 

 December 20, 1999 (3 weeks before January meeting/ 5 weeks before
January 24, 2000)

   Explanation: "Once Linda and the FTF
    members have given the draft the OK, it gets published, and FTF
members
    and non-members refer to when raising issues or making comments. The
    purpose of the FTF is to find and fix any remaining technical
problems
    with this document before it is finalized. This publication date
must be
    at least 28 calendar days (but often several months) before ..."

  * A deadline for comments on the Adopted Specification from OMG
Members and others.

 January 24, 2000 (1 week after January meeting)


  * FTF report delivery deadline. 

 February 14, 2000 (3 weeks before March meeting)

    Explanation: "This is the date by which the FTF produces a
recommendation on how to fix any issues in the
    adopted spec. This recommendation *must* include a list of issues
that
    were raised, which  ones were resolved and how (with specifics on
how
    the adopted spec is to be edited to address them), and which ones
were
    deferred or dropped (or otherwise brushed aside :-). Either the FTF
    members or the Staff Editor will also need to apply the changes to
the
    Adopted Specification at some point, to generate the Available
Specification."

Linda, are the first 2 dates ok with you as the OMG editor?

Konstantin Beznosov

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