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Procedural Work Group- Ed Pollen
Comments to Procurement Procedures Document have been received.
Magnetic Fare Media Work Group- Bob Murray
The work group has three separate documents it is working on:
- Ticket Specification Document
- Test Document
- Magnetic Ticket Data
Bob stated he needs more reviewers and contributors and specifically
needs an expert on printing inks.
Research Work Group- Walt Bonneau
Ver 1.3.2 of the Trends in Electronic Fare Media will be distributed.
This version corrects some oversights in inclusion of comments.
The group will remain on hold until informed of the procedure for
final resolution of comments.
Tim must engage APTA Staff to determine a plan for document upkeep.
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Ed Pollan stated that the Procurement Procedures document was released
for comment several months ago and all comments have been received.
The next step for the work group is to meet and assimilate those comments
using the comment resolution form.
The Work group last met on June 17. There are three documents the group
is working on.
The first is a Ticket Specification document written by Alan Davidson.
This document must be further developed into a specification. It was
more of a guideline. Bob Reavis of BART re-wrote the document to parallel
the ISO standards.
The second is a Test document. This document was written by Traci Rozier
of CTA and is a very good document. It is currently on hold until the
Ticket Spec is complete.
The Third is a Magnetic Ticket Data document which was written by Bob
Murray and Cubic. The document contains both data and magnetic recording
information, but must be split into these two distinct parts.
The plan is to continue to work on the documents and release them internally
to the work group members for review and comment.
Joe Simonetti asked Bob how he wants to proceed and what help he needs.
Bob replied that he would like more contributors and reviewers. He also
said he needs an expert in printing inks. Finally, he said it must be
determined how the various tracks will be laid down- will they be according
to ISO or some other method.
Walt reported that the "Trends" document was released for comment to
the committee as well as the task force members. The work group worked
to assimilate comments to the document in June-July. Version 1.3.1 was
released along with the Comment Resolution form was released to the
group with this version.
Comments were inserted when there was a rewording stated. Those comments
that were not included in the document were those that didn’t provide
a proposed fix. For example, those comments that stated that it is inappropriate
to include materials from contributors were not inserted. Walt stated
that it is common to give contributors credit for their submissions
in the final document.
Walt stated that there were several oversights in including comments
and that these oversights were corrected in Ver 1.3.2. This document
was submitted for distribution. The group is on hold until final resolution
of comments.
Ed Pollan asked to discuss the issue of references more broadly. He
asked if best practices should note contributors. Walt stated that this
is the case in other standards bodies and even non-standards bodies.
Ed asked for clarification of different references:
- Those entities that authored the document
- Those references that merely reference a source.
Walt stated that acknowledgements are stated because those entities
authored the document. It was noted that this issue would be discussed
with APTA and the Task Force leadership.
Walt asked what the next steps are for the document approval. Tim stated
that the comments must be fully resolved. Joe spoke about the post-issuance
steps and asked Walt his view about document updates. Walt stated that
he believed an annual update was necessary for the document to keep
its value. A question for APTA was raised on this point: Should the
document update plan be stated in a preamble to the document? Tim will
follow up with APTA on this.
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