Re:SV: RE: Comments to Version 0.8-Reqts Specs

["Mark CRAWFORD"<mcrawfor@lmi.org>]

>From another perspective, The National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act
of 1995 and OMB Circular A119 of 1997 direct federal agencies to transition from
proprietary standards and adopt public standards.  NIST has cancelled a number
of FIPS (although FIPS 10-4 is still in effect).  My sense is that DoD should
seriously look at adopting the ISO standard.  If there are specific issues
within the ISO standard that DoD has issue with, then they should follow the
provisions of OMB A119 and actively participate in pushing for necessary
changes.

Having said that, please note that the ISO and RFC referenced in the ebXML
requirements document are straight from the W3C XML 1.0 Specification.  They are
included in that specification as a point of reference necessary to fully
understand the spec (See language in section 1.1 of the spec).  As such, and in
keeping with the other language reqarding ebXML use of and compliance with the
W3C XML Technical Specifications, the requirements team felt it appropriate to
carry those forward into the requirements document.

    Mark
Mark Crawford
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