LETSI Technical Working Group Meeting

19 February 2008

Attending: Frank Polster, Tyde Richards, Neil Cramer, Clark Christensen, Don Holmes, John Campbell, Michael Pope, Jill Abbott, Tom Wason, Ginny Travers, Fanny Klett

Remember, General LETSI meeting and Tech Roadmap WG meeting scheduled for 13 March in Seoul. The Plenary session will be available remotely via Acrobat Connect.

Discussion of Clark's white paper, Learning Functionality Framework (distributed by email last night). Each category of functionality (Runtime Communication, Learning Metadata, Sequencing, Content Aggregation, ...) is described with a definition, a description of it's implementation in SCORM 2004, a discussion of it's current state/issues, and a vision of what functionality we need to enable in each area.

Comments on Clark's document are requested (on wiki or by email). Tyde and Clark will collect for review at our next meeting.

The ISO SC36 Core SCORM study group is meeting again on Thursday (two sessions again). The group will meet face to face in Korea on March 16th, where the scope of the SG will be decided. By the way, there are rumors that the Korean NB will submit Content Packaging 1.1.4 for fast tracking at ISO. Another issue to be investigated is how SCORM will support the divergent needs of different communities of practice (SIFA, MedBiquitous, AICC, IMS Common Cartridge, ...).

A brief discussion about standards vs. specs, treaty organizations and trade associations, was lead by Fanny Klett. Issues about whether the IEEE produces "standards" vs. specs, for example, are a matter of semantics and do not reflect on their actual impact.

 Some issues we've being discussing might be ready to move to projects:

-       ECMAScript binding for the BBN web services implementation. Ginny, Tyde and Schawn Thropp will meet to discuss how to bring this issue to the IEEE LTSC. Tom Wason, Don Holmes, and John Campbell will also participate.

-       Tom King has discussed with EIFeL their use of AICC PENS spec and wants to start a collaboration on PENS adoption (in French)

-       Wayne Gafford is looking at representing SCORM content in S1000D and would like to investigate this topic. The Aviation Industry Association has expressed interest.

-       Allyn Radford is exploring DITA as a content structure and aggregation mechanism.

-       Tyde wants to explore W3C state charts as a mechanism to support sequencing in a general way.

Tyde will send email announcements when/if these groups are set up and meeting.