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Hi Steve, Hopefully you are right that only formalities remain. As I've said before though, the big downside of this for me is having to admit that taking this approach was your idea (long ago) rather than my own. [?] -- Ben On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Steve Hankin <Steven.C.Hankin@xxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Those steps (44-52) really do sounds like formalities. Time to start > chilling the champagne and decorating the ball room! :-) > > - Steve > > ====================================================== > > > On 1/7/2011 3:24 PM, Ben Domenico wrote: > > Hi all, > > Following up on Carl's congratulations note earlier in the week, I want > to let you know how the loose ends are being tied up for the two > netcdf-related specs approved by the OGC Technical Committee. The main > thing is that, based on feedback from the OGC Naming Authority (NA), I have > edited the parts of the documents that specify the HTTP URIs that will be > used as identifiers for the requirements, conformance tests, and > netCDF-specific definitions. With that done, I submitted today a revised > set of HTTP URIs to the OGC NA. Those are the only suggested edits that > have been brought to my attention. > > In Carl's earlier note, he mentioned that the remaining steps consist of > rows 44 through 52 in his checklist spreadsheet. For some time, I avoided > looking at that spreadsheet, but finally I bit the bullet and have pasted > those rows below. > > *43 *Vote completes > *44 *Announcement to OGC Members (TCC ) > *45 *Planning Committee Approval (TCC and PC) > *46 *SWG updates Change Request status for each CR processed (SWG) > *47 *TCC does final review of adopted standard (TCC) > *48 *Press release to announce new standard SWG and OGC (staff) > *49 *Schema processing (SWG and OGC staff) > *50 *Standard published (OGC staff) > *51 *Press release released (OGC staff) > *52 *Done. Congratulations!! > > The acronyms are as follows. TCC is the Technical Committee Chair > (Carl); PC is the OGC Planning Committee; SWG is us, the Standard Working > Group. The only items left for us are helping with the press release, > "updates to Change Request status" and "schema processing." I'm not aware > of any change requests and we have no schemae to process. So, near as I > can tell, except for the press release, our work is complete these initial > two specs and, after a suitable sigh of relief, we can plunge into the next > extension for the CF conventions. > > Reading over that last sentence, it sounds like a classic case of "famous > last words," but I'm going to chance it anyway. [?] > > Have a good weekend. > > -- Ben > > PS I'm sending a copy of this to GALEON and to colleagues at work, a few > of whom have asked about the remaining steps in the process. > > * > * > > > _______________________________________________ > galeon mailing listgaleon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ > >
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