Re: (Fwd) Input to next ebXML meeting

["Lisa M. Shreve" <lms@wwnet.com>]

Sue,

Immediately following the November ebXML meeting I attempted to distribute meeting minutes/output from the meeting to the listserv.  I received a rejection message from the listserv, and when I contacted Laura Walker.  The response I received the following:

We have a policy of not sending anything but PLAIN TEXT files through the listserv. We do this in order to ensure vendor-neutrality. While it can be inconvenient, I'm sure you understand how important it is for us to do so.  So please resend your message in plain text format. (We're still talking with the CEFACT people about which organization will maintain the website -- if OASIS does it, I should have an FTP site up by mid-week.)

So, I was actually mistaken when I said that we could use anything other
than plain text.  In any effect, that policy has changed [which confirmed
yesterday].  It appears that we can distribute any document or graphic
files we need to, and we can also utilize PKZIP for compression.

It is my preference to not distribute documents over the listserv, and instead to utilize our "private web page", so that we have a running record of all documents available at a share location.  I hope that this will be available to us as a project team soon.

lms

Having returned to my office this morning and having viewed my email
I notice that we can only officially submit input papers in .pdf
or.htm format. I am sure that I remember a general agreement before
the end of the San Jose meeting that Office 97 formats were also
acceptable? However, to aid dissemination please find attached my
contribution on behalf of the european EDIFACT transport group in
.pdf form.

Again I would be very grateful if you can arrange for this to be
shared with the othre members of the group as an input for next
week's meeting.

Thanks and see you soon