I would attend. Ralph > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray Denenberg [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:03 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: SRW/U Meeting > > > We need to firm up a plan to bring the SRW/U > specifications to version 1.0, i.e an > "implementation spec" along the lines of the OAI > model, where the spec is frozen for a period of > time (e.g. 6 months), people implement it and > test, and during that period defects are found and > applied to a subsequent version 1.1 which becomes > the real first version. > > I like to see a version 1.0 by end-of-summer or > early autumn. To achieve this we should consider > having a meeting. > > I am tentatively holding July 11 and 12 for a > meeting here in DC. I've spoken privately with a > few of the more active implementors and July 11-12 > seems to work well. > > Who on this list would be interested in coming to > such a meeting, and among you, who can make it > July 11-12? > > Who among you thinks that a meeting might be > un-necessary, and that we should proceed to try to > work out these specs via email? Or perhaps by > putting if off a month (say, late August) the > meeting might be more productive (or better, we > might find out that we don't need it)? > > In any case if the meeting is to be held July > 11-12 we need a firm decision by early next week. > > --Ray >