[tei-council] the xpointer comments

[Piotr Banski]

In the wiki, at the top of the Actions page, we say:

"Council members (e.g. PB, LB and GB) will add comments directly to HC’s 
original proposal by the end of October, and then we will be happy to 
receive any further drafts of it."

http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Oxford2012-Actions

I was wondering: can we move this to the end of November, and first hear 
what Hugh has to say about that at the TEI-MM, and discuss it, at least 
in part, there on the spot?

I'm now taking on my tickets, then it's release time, then the 
preparation for the MM talk and the SIG meeting (and I'm flying to the 
States very soon, it's a joint work trip), and I just can't see the 
possibility of getting down to preparing detailed remarks on this right 
now (there's the day job to be handled before the MM trip, too).

On another note, I would really like to see Syd involved in this -- I 
believe his input to be quite crucial, given that he was the author of 
the original TEI XPointer schemes.

I am not even sure of the status of Hugh's proposal in the googledoc -- 
is this something submitted to the Council to act on, or is that an 
abstract of his MM talk? If the former were the case, I could understand 
why the Council would delegate its three members to handle it, but it 
seems to me to be a sketch of a proposal only, and so I don't understand 
why we should act on something that isn't in fact finalised before Hugh 
presents it at the MM:

http://idhmc.tamu.edu/teiconference/program/papers/session-1b/

So once again: can we say
a) please submit a concrete proposal
b) "end of November at the earliest"
, there?

Otherwise, it seems to me that we may act on this as fellow researchers 
and members of a WG, but not really in our capacity as members of the 
Council.

Best,

   P.