reporting to the May meeting of the TEI-C Board

[John Unsworth]

Council members are reminded, one month in advance of the TEI Board 
meeting, May 9-10, of the following:

Geoff Rockwell, Sebastian Rahtz, Julia Flanders, and Perry Willett are to 
submit a report, with recommendations, on training issues, for the board 
meeting.

Matthew Driscoll, Merrilee Proffitt, and Laurent Romary are to submit a 
report, with recommendations, on the issues surrounding TEI certification 
of training or other products and services.

Between now and the board meeting, I will also be working, by email, with 
David Durand and Christian Wittern to draft charters for their workgroups, 
for board approval.

Finally, I would be grateful if the council could take up, on this list, 
the following, noted in my draft minutes from our meeting in London:

>P5 should have a well understood and clearly articulated strategy for
>adopting, supplementing, and referencing other relevant standards.
>Character encoding and linking, schemas, and metadata were some areas where
>the Council needs to decide a strategy in this regard.
>
>The Council decided that it should, in effect, consider itself a workgroup
>for the purpose of addressing some key strategic and infrastructural issues
>in planning for P5, for example schemas, DTDs, namespaces. The Council
>also decided not to turn to those issues until P4 was put to bed, some time
>this spring. [From discussions subsequent to the meeting, and the Chair's
>own autocratic scheduling impulse: When the Council does begin discussion
>of these issues, probably some time in April, we will ask Perry Willett to
>host regular conference calls, and we will endeavor to provide a
>preliminary overview of the issues to the Board's May meeting.]

It would be very good if I could, in fact, provide a preliminary overview, 
for the Board, of the Council's strategy with respect to schemas, DTDs, 
namespaces, and "a clearly articulated strategy for 
adopting/supplementing/referencing other relevant standards."

Thank you,

John