Naming of things

[John Unsworth]

At 04:04 PM 3/26/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>I would prefer it if Metalanguage was a workgroup,
>since its activities would seem to exactly fit that description.

Fine.

<p>>Patrick Durusau seems to me to have been requested by the TEI
>Council to do an investigation. Does this need a name?

It's a task force.

>I think the distinction between this and the other Things
>is that he does not have the right to claim TEI accreditation.

Look, first of all, he's doing us a favor by taking on some work that we 
would like done, so I don't think we should begin by making sure he feels 
slighted.  But if what you mean by TEI accreditation is that the TEI has 
commissioned the activity, then yes, he can claim that.  If what you mean 
is that the results of the work may or may not be accepted by the TEI, then 
that's true, but it's as true for workgroups: the Council makes those 
decisions case by case.  The distinction between a task force and a work 
group is that a task force is not charged with proposing revisions to the 
guidelines--though it may be asked to do work that would result in a 
workgroup wthat would then propose revisions to the guidelines.  A task 
force conducts more narrowly focused or more preliminary investigations, it 
seems to me.

John

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