Office Document Architecture (oda)

Charter

Chair(s):
     Peter Kirstein, kirstein@cs.ucl.ac.uk

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     General Discussion:  ietf-osi-oda@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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Description of Working Group:

     The ODA Working Group will develop guidelines for the use of
     the Office Document Architecture for the exchange of Compound
     documents including formattable text, bit-map graphics and
     geometric graphics according to the ODA Standard.  It will
     consider also Intercept Standards for other document content
     types it considers vital - e.g., Spreadsheets.  The Working
     Group will define how to use both SMTP and X.400 for
     interchange of ODA documents.  It will maintain close liason
     with the SMTP and X.400 Working Groups.

     This Working Group will review the availability of ODA
     implementations, in order to mount a Pilot Testbed for
     processable compound document interchange.  Finally, it will
     set up and evaluate such a testbed.

Goals and Milestones:

Done       Inaugural meeting.

Done       Produce a paper stating what ODA standards or profiles still
           need completing.

Jul 1991   Produce paper on how both SMTP and X.400 message systems
           should be supported.

Done       Produce paper on what pilot implementations can be provided.

Jul 1991   Produce paper on what scale and type of Pilot Testbed should
           be organised.

Dec 1991   Provide first feedback on the ODA Pilot.

Ongoing    Coordinate ODA Pilot.

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Ongoing    Review and propose additional enhancements of ODA.



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