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After WG consensus, the revised WG charter will be submitted to the LETSI SEC for approval
Comment Deadline: September 18, 2007
20070904 Draft LETSI Tech WG Charter
The charter of this working group is to define the technical strategies and deliverables for LETSI. The activities involved with this process may include but are not limited to:
Coordinating with interested parties to define a SCORM Stewardship technical roadmap.
Coordinating with international standards bodies on an international SCORM standard.
Coordinating with the ADL, ADL SCORM Technical Working Group (TWG) and other interested parties on SCORM's technical roadmap and release schedule.
It's not clear from the charter how this group relates to ISO (as Jill pointed out on the call) - can that be incorporated somehow, in more general terms?
I really liked the point that Avron made in the meeting regarding that one of the goals of LETSI was to coordinate and collaborate with the global community the use of SCORM. Is this something to bring out in this work group charter?
Apologies for not getting to this until the last minute.
One reason for SCORM's success is that it doesn't get in the way of a bunch of people who are innovating in all directions. This "coordination" is the result of an open, collaborative development process that involves the broadest possible range of uses of SCORM. The ADL, MedBiquitous, AICC, SIFA, and Korea CHLS all have different ambitions for SCORM. We agree to work together on what we all need. Perhaps the TRWG charter should have three immediate foci...
The Technical Roadmap Working Group will advise the SEC on matters pertaining to technical strategy and deliverables. This work will initially be focused on:
Coordinating with ISO/IEC SC36 on an international standard SCORM.
Coordinating with the ADL, TWG, and others on SCORM's technical roadmap and release schedule.
Coordinating with the ADL on a plan for LETSI to assume responsibility for SCORM's stewardship.
I like Avron's suggestion. I don't think, at least for now, the TRWG can define SCORM's roadmap by itself. The group has to coordinate, offer suggestions and define this roadmap in conjuction with all interested parties. Do we want to identify anything specific that the LETSI TRWG will be responsible for outside of coordinating as in the numbered list. For example, we mentioned in the past possibly redefining a model for LETSI stewardship work (R&D -> Spec -> Test Bed -> IEEE -> ISO "napkin" diagram). Or are these coordination activities good enough.
I think Robby 's suggestion of separtating the charter from deliverables makes sense.
Therefore the charter is - "The charter of this working group is to define the technical strategies and deliverables for LETSI"
Deliverables are -
Coordinating with ISO/IEC SC36 on an international standard SCORM.
Coordinating with the ADL, TWG, and others on SCORM's technical roadmap and release schedule.
Coordinating with the ADL on a plan for LETSI to assume responsibility for SCORM's stewardship.
These deliverables wil require resources and as a minimum and R&D> Spec.TestBed set of enablers are required or collaboration with an agency that has that infrastucture e.g. ADL TWG
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