CEN TC353 6th meeyinh

Lyon 2009-10-01

Role call of delegates:

Italy x1
UK x3
Netherland x1
Germany x1
Finland x2
France x1
Spain x1

Agenda:

3. Appointment of the resolution committee

Massimo Actis Dato
Erlend Øverby
Mark Stubbs
Cleo Sgouropoulou
Mike Collett

4. Adoption of the agenda

The draft agenda (Doc N 064) is adopted.

5. Approval of the minutes of the first meeting

The draft minutes of the fourth meeting are adopted without amendments.

6. Review of business plan

The ELM project team is invited to provide by January 15, 2010 wording for section «4.1 Defined objectives...» that demonstrates how the European Learner Mobility project and related work support European policy goals. All NBLOs of the TC 353 are invited to submit by January 15, 2010 proposals for revising the wording and priorities in section «4.1 Defined objectives...» to ensure that these are in line with European policy goals.
The secretariat will integrate the proposed text in the current BP, and the revised document will be submitted to the next plenary for approval.

7. Liaisons

Tore Hoel gives a report on the WS activity (Doc N 068)
Christian M. Stracke gives a report on the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 activity (Doc N 066) The results from the three ongoing Work Items will be submitted informally to SC36, when sufficiently mature.

8. Technical activities

It was noted that the three main technical activities had documents in the balloting process so there was little that could be discussed.

9. Other matters arising from the Ws-LT meeting on the previous day

Namespace policy The conclusions of the discussion are recorded in the resolutions. On the operational side, TC 353 agreed on a text along the same lines of the text already approved by WS-LT, and the secretariat will distribute it to CEN as appropriate.
Collaboration with CEN WS ICT Skills There may be significant opportunities of collaboration with the CEN WS ICT Skills. Goals and suggestions are in the resolutions; the first steps are in the action list.

10. Next meetings

The next meeting of TC 353 will be held in Brussels, Belgium on 2010-04-20 (venue to be confirmed) co-located with the CEN WS-LT meeting on the previous day.
The TC 353 also notes the provisional offer from Finland expresses the intention to host the following meeting on 2010-10-06 meeting in Helsinki, Finland, co-located with the CEN WS-LT meeting on the previous day.

11. Any other business

Mike Collett expresses his intention to resign as chair of the TC 353. Christian M. Stracke expresses his intention to put forward his candidature and volunteer for the post. The election of the new chairman will take place during the next meeting. The secretariat will manage the election process.

Resolutions:

Resolution 1: Namespace policy

CEN TC353 Information Communication Technologies for Learning, Education and Traning; requests that its secretariat and chair communicate with the appropriate CEN senior managers that there is an urgent need for a clear identifier policy and service, for items that relate to work under development as European standards. The service should enable workshops and technical committees to request and register unique and persistent identifiers. The identifiers can then be used to identify a range of items including properties (or elements), concepts, terms or schemas. The identifiers should be capable of being reused, should avoid containing semantics and should have a clear and simple syntax. The identifiers should be able to be resolved in more than one location. The TC353 will point out that the need for an identifier policy and service is strengthened by the fact that the same need is also identified by ISO, see for example the RFC 5141, titled "A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)" (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5141.txt).
Approved unanimously

Resolution 2: Collaboration with CEN WS ICT Skills

TC353 requests that the chair and secretariat contact the CEN WS ICT Skills to identify relevant projects for standardisation within the TC. The chair and secretariat is also mandated to arrange for a co-located meeting with the CEN WS ICT Skills and the CEN WS-LT if possible.
Approved unanimously

Resolution 3: Amendment of business plan

TC353 requests the ELM project team to provide by January 15, 2010 wording for section «4.1 Defined objectives...» that demonstrates how the European Learner Mobility project and related work support European policy goals.
Approved unanimously

Resolution 4: Amendment of business plan

TC353 requests that all NBLOs of the TC353 to submit by January 15, 2010 proposals for revising the wording and priorities in section «4.1 Defined objectives...» to ensure that these are in line with European policy goals.
Approved unanimously

Resolution 5: Contact relevant people in the European Commission

TC353 requests that the chair and the secretariat contact relevant people within the European Commission to notify them about our work, and the importance of standards for achieving EU policy goals, and how the relevant DGs and the TC353 could work together to reach these goals based on the revised business plan.
Approved unanimously

Resolution 6: Next meeting

TC353 resolves that the next meeting will be co-located with the CEN WS-LT meeting in Brussels, Belgium at the 2010-04-20 (venue to be confirmed). TC353 also notes that the CEN WS-LT meets at 2010-04-19.

The document deadline for the meeting will be Monday 2010-03-22.
The TC also notes the provisional offer from Finland to host the 2010-10-06 meeting in Helsinki, Finland.

Approved unanimously

Acclamations

Acclamation 1 Appreciation of the host

TC353 acclaims the hospitality and refreshments provided by École Normale Supérieure de Lyon during the meeting, the support and excellent arrangements provided by Gérard Vidal
Acclaimed

Acclamation 2 Appreciation of the Chair and Secretariat

TC353 acclaims the leadership and guidance provided by the Chair and the Secretariat during the meeting.
Acclaimed

Acclamation 3 Appreciation of the drafting resolution committee

TC353 acclaims the work of the drafting resolution committee:

Massimo Actis Dato
Erlend Øverby
Mark Stubbs
Cleo Sgouropoulou
Mike Collett

TC353 - Lyon 2009-10-01