proposed letter to Faulhaber, Chesnutt

[John Unsworth]

At 06:35 AM 12/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
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>One component of certification might be to determine conformance to the 
>Guidelines' conformance clauses and use of extension mechanisms. It 
>shouldn't stop there, but that is an aspect of the guidelines that is 
>sometimes passed over lightly.

True.

<p>>It seems to me that we could learn a great deal about revisions of the 
>idea of conformance in P5, from the process of examining projects, and 
>evaluating both their inherent virtues and drawbacks, and also how they 
>relate to the letter of conformance as currently written.

Yep, I agree.  Some of that is going on now in Chris's migration workgroup, 
and I think it would be a good outcome of a certification activity for the 
TEI, to know more (and in more detail) about what people actually do with 
the Guidelines.

>At one point, long ago, there was talk of a fee-based certification 
>service, similar to the MLA's critical edition certification. This sounds 
>grisly, greedy, and grasping, perhaps, but it's actually not a bad way of 
>allowing projects to secure grant funding for the TEI Consortium to help 
>them with expert review of their practices.

As such, it would be a prod to writing TEI into project grant budgets, and 
I think *that* would be a very good thing.

John