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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Peter Kirstein/UCL
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- Minutes of the Office Document Architecture Working Group (ODA)
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- There had been less progress in implementations of the newer FOD-26
- version of the ODA Profile than had been hoped by the time of this
- meeting. Moreover, while early implementations may be available during
- the Third Quarter of 1993, it is unlikely that there can be enough to
- justify any pilot by that time.
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- In view of the above, and of the very poor attendance at the meeting, it
- was agreed to terminate the Working Group. If there is sufficient
- interest at a later stage - e.g., the November 1993 meeting, then the
- Working Group may be reinstated. The current status is outlined below.
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- Documents Available
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- Some papers are available in an electronic form on the UCL-CS
- info-server: ``info-server@cs.ucl.ac.uk''. The documents in the
- info-server are accessed by standard message systems, giving a message
- body of the form:
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- request:ietf-osi-oda
- topic:xxxx
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- where xxxx is the name of the document required.
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- All the documents in the info-server are available in text form; many of
- them are stored also in ODA/ODIF format. The list of documents
- currently in the collection is listed in a document called INDEX.
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- The Status of Q112 Implementations
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- The latest document defining the current status is [1] below. It is
- available on the info-server. It gives details about the current
- implementations producing Q112 ODA available for the Pilot. These are
- listed below:
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- PRODUCT Supplier Status Product Availability Source
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- SLATE/ODA V1.2 or V2 BBN/UCL OK SLATE-yes Now UCL
- Word-for-Windows/ODA v3 Bull OK Yes Now Bull
- DECWRITE/ODA DEC OK Yes Now DEC
- Global View Xerox Testing Yes Now Xerox
- MACODA Apple Testing Beta ?? Apple
- WordPerfect UPC Dev ?? Q2 93 UPC
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- UCL started shipping SLATE/ODA v1.2 in February 1992; this is based on
- SLATE v1.2. Few have tested it. BBN brought out V2 of SLATE during Q4
- 92. From a user viewpoint, this has better graphics and font support,
- supports a fuller character set, and is easier to configure; the UCL
- SLATE/ODA v2 supports only the same functionality as the SLATE/ODA v1.2
- - because the extra facilities in the SLATE v2 are not supported in the
- Convertor. The Bull product has not been changed recently; UCL has
- tested it for conformity. The DEC product is available now, and has
- been tested for conformity; no other site had tried a recent version of
- that software. The Apple and Xerox products were delivered to UCL. They
- have not really been tested for interoperability by UCL; little interest
- in them was expressed in the last ODA WG meeting. The WordPerfect/ODA
- system from University Politechnic of Catalonia has been delivered
- recently to UCL. There are some problems still which must be ironed out
- - but the software should be available by June 1993.
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- There was also interest expressed in ODA vs SGML. UCL has produced an
- SGML --> ODA convertor, which works with a specific DTD. This can be
- made available to interested parties.
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- The Status of FOD-26 Implementations
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- The Profile used in all the ODA document activities described hitherto
- is the Q112 Profile. A new Profile called FOD26 has now been ratified.
- The new profile has some advantages, but that is less important than
- that a number of large manufacturers have agreed to support it for
- products under ODAC (Bull, DEC, IBM, ICL, Siemens-Nixdorf and UNISYS as
- part of the ODA Consortium). The manufacturers are providing their
- further products only according to the FOD26 version. The ODAC Toolkits
- is now available in binary form for $US 100 from the Consortium.
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- In view of the above, there has been little interest in working with the
- Q112 versions of the software, and for that reason we had chosen not to
- have a meeting at the November 1992 IETF. There were a number of FOD26
- developments announced; these include the following:
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- PRODUCT Supplier Status Product Availability Source
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- SLATE/ODA V2 BBN/UCL Testing SLATE-yes Q3 1993 UCL
- Word-for-Windows/ODA Bull Testing Yes Q3 1993 Bull
- WordPerfect UPC Testing Yes Q3 1993 UPC
- ODAC Toolkit ICL Available Yes Now ICL
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- Reference
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- 1. S. Bayderee et al: The ODA Document Convertors, UCL Internal
- Report, Version 5, March 1993.
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