Bulletin #1



      Canadian Ad hoc Committee for the development of

               a neutral citation standard





Hello everyone,



        Daniel and I have been hard at work this week 

developing a working draft document based on the outline

you got in my last message. You will all have access to it

as soon as it's ready early next week. We'll inform you

of its URL through this list.



        We're planning a conference call with you all in 

10 days, on Wednesday May 13, at 13:00 Montreal time, which 

would be 12:00 in Halifax and 15:00 in Vancouver, if memory

serves right. Please confirm your participation by e-mail

to myself and the phone number at wich we will be able to 

reach you at this time and date. Plan for half an hour.



        The agenda of this conference call is the following:



1- Accepting the working draft for public release. 



2- Agreeing on a work schedule for the comming period.



3- Varia



        We suggest a conference call every other week until 

we get through the working draft and are able to release a 

public proposal for a standard by the end of June. If all 

goes well, that would be three conference calls, each on 

the following parts of the working draft:



        - Objectives and Architecture;



        - Identifier and language aspects;



        - Decision numbering and other issues.



        Each of these sessions will begin by agreeing on

the text of the section of the proposal resulting from the

previous session. You will all have been informed of the

availability of the texts well before the call dates. We

feel splitting up the working draft this way will provide

better focus ang get us where we want quicker.



        As documents produced by the Committee become public,

they will be posted on the Committe's Web site.



        Cheers.





-- 

Guy Huard      huard@crdp.umontreal.ca

Editeur        LexUM

               Centre de Recherche en Droit Public

               Universite de Montreal

               http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/



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