Re: (dsssl) The future of DSSSL

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01/11/02 10:26 -0600, Brandon Ibach wrote:
> Greetings, DSSSLers...
>    Some time ago, we (the DSSSL community) received an offer from
> Javier Farreres.  He proposed to have some of his university students
> do development work on OpenJade.  I (and others) feel it would be a
> terrible waste to pass up this opportunity to advance the state of
> DSSSL implementation, but the question is, what would be the most
> useful parts of DSSSL to have, that we don't have now?  How can we
> best take advantage of this offer?

This is an admirable effort to establish priorities for furthering the 
implementation of OpenJade.

>    [On a personal note, Javier, I hope the window of opportunity is
> still open, and I hope that we can still work together to take
> advantage of the resources you have offered.]
>    If you, like me, care about the future of DSSSL, would like to see
> it live on, would like to see the tools get better, and maybe even
> have some ideas about what you'd like to see happen with DSSSL, we
> should talk. :)
>    To that end, I'd like to propose an "Open Forum on the Future of
> DSSSL".

But now you have switched gears to talk about DSSSL and not about OpenJade.

>    I have a lot of ideas about what I'd like to see happen with DSSSL
> in the future, and I know that others do, as well.  Let's collect the
> thoughts of the DSSSL community toward the goal of advancing the state
> of this wonderful technology. :)

The appropriate forum to talk about the future of an ISO standard is 
through the ISO itself by participating in your country's representative 
committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34.  Canadians interested in doing so are 
welcome to contact me as I am the chairman of Canada's representative 
committee.  Presently, Japanese representatives have been most active on 
the maintenance and progression of the DSSSL standard, having already 
released an amendment.  There is a commercial implementation of complex 
page geometry for DSSSL from Next Solution http://www.NextSolution.co.jp in 
Japan, and I know their engineer who is active with standards issues.

As for the future of OpenJade, it will certainly be interesting to hear the 
results of your discussion.

..................... Ken


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