CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Peter Kirstein/UCL Minutes of the Office Document Architecture Working Group (ODA) There had been less progress in implementations of the newer FOD-26 version of the ODA Profile than had been hoped by the time of this meeting. Moreover, while early implementations may be available during the Third Quarter of 1993, it is unlikely that there can be enough to justify any pilot by that time. In view of the above, and of the very poor attendance at the meeting, it was agreed to terminate the Working Group. If there is sufficient interest at a later stage - e.g., the November 1993 meeting, then the Working Group may be reinstated. The current status is outlined below. Documents Available Some papers are available in an electronic form on the UCL-CS info-server: ``info-server@cs.ucl.ac.uk''. The documents in the info-server are accessed by standard message systems, giving a message body of the form: request:ietf-osi-oda topic:xxxx where xxxx is the name of the document required. All the documents in the info-server are available in text form; many of them are stored also in ODA/ODIF format. The list of documents currently in the collection is listed in a document called INDEX. The Status of Q112 Implementations The latest document defining the current status is [1] below. It is available on the info-server. It gives details about the current implementations producing Q112 ODA available for the Pilot. These are listed below: PRODUCT Supplier Status Product Availability Source SLATE/ODA V1.2 or V2 BBN/UCL OK SLATE-yes Now UCL Word-for-Windows/ODA v3 Bull OK Yes Now Bull DECWRITE/ODA DEC OK Yes Now DEC Global View Xerox Testing Yes Now Xerox MACODA Apple Testing Beta ?? Apple WordPerfect UPC Dev ?? Q2 93 UPC 1 UCL started shipping SLATE/ODA v1.2 in February 1992; this is based on SLATE v1.2. Few have tested it. BBN brought out V2 of SLATE during Q4 92. From a user viewpoint, this has better graphics and font support, supports a fuller character set, and is easier to configure; the UCL SLATE/ODA v2 supports only the same functionality as the SLATE/ODA v1.2 - because the extra facilities in the SLATE v2 are not supported in the Convertor. The Bull product has not been changed recently; UCL has tested it for conformity. The DEC product is available now, and has been tested for conformity; no other site had tried a recent version of that software. The Apple and Xerox products were delivered to UCL. They have not really been tested for interoperability by UCL; little interest in them was expressed in the last ODA WG meeting. The WordPerfect/ODA system from University Politechnic of Catalonia has been delivered recently to UCL. There are some problems still which must be ironed out - but the software should be available by June 1993. There was also interest expressed in ODA vs SGML. UCL has produced an SGML --> ODA convertor, which works with a specific DTD. This can be made available to interested parties. The Status of FOD-26 Implementations The Profile used in all the ODA document activities described hitherto is the Q112 Profile. A new Profile called FOD26 has now been ratified. The new profile has some advantages, but that is less important than that a number of large manufacturers have agreed to support it for products under ODAC (Bull, DEC, IBM, ICL, Siemens-Nixdorf and UNISYS as part of the ODA Consortium). The manufacturers are providing their further products only according to the FOD26 version. The ODAC Toolkits is now available in binary form for $US 100 from the Consortium. In view of the above, there has been little interest in working with the Q112 versions of the software, and for that reason we had chosen not to have a meeting at the November 1992 IETF. There were a number of FOD26 developments announced; these include the following: PRODUCT Supplier Status Product Availability Source SLATE/ODA V2 BBN/UCL Testing SLATE-yes Q3 1993 UCL Word-for-Windows/ODA Bull Testing Yes Q3 1993 Bull WordPerfect UPC Testing Yes Q3 1993 UPC ODAC Toolkit ICL Available Yes Now ICL Reference 1. S. Bayderee et al: The ODA Document Convertors, UCL Internal Report, Version 5, March 1993. 2