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-----Original Message-----Hi Pal,
From: Alastair Green [mailto:alastair.green@choreology.com]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 5:06 AM
To: pal.takasci
Cc: OASIS BT TC; Karl Best
Subject: Minutes of teleconference 16 August 2001
Here are the minutes of yesterday's call:
Apologies: Pal Tackacsi-Nagy, Savas Parastatidis
Present: Mark Hale, Mark Potts, Mark Little, Fred Carter, Sanjay Dalal, Sazi Temel, Bill Pope, James Tauber, Alastair Green, Peter Furniss, Steve Weiss
The presence of 10 voting TC members (out of a current total of 19) made the meeting quorate. As this was the second quorate meeting that Steve Weiss has attended it was unanimously agreed to accept Steve as a voting member of the TC.
Fred Carter announced that this is the last meeting he will be attending as an employee of Sun. We wish he and his colleagues well with their new venture, and Fred was warmly encouraged to continue membership by transferring within 15 days to registration as an individual or under his new company's name, as per the revised OASIS TC rules.
It was unanimously agreed that:
BT Technical Committee decisions can be taken by electronic mail votes. Votes must be returned to the chair within one week of a call for vote (with the propositions attached) being circulated by e-mail. Abstentions can be recorded, and count towards obtaining a quorum.
The 10 August 2001 submission "Proposed extensions to the OASIS BTP specification" by Alastair Green and Peter Furniss, was discussed. This was submitted in the light of the phone meeting of 9th August. It was agreed that this submission should be incorporated in the draft specification. Sanjay Dalal raised the issue as to whether the Service-Participant interface should also be defined, but no decision was made on this possibility.
It was agreed that the focus of the next telephone meeting on 23 August will be messaging issues. Alex Ceponkus will be back from vacation by then: Alex has been a key author along with James Tauber of work on the messaging front.
Alastair Green stated that he believed a full draft specification will not be ready until mid-September, given the new work on VCT-Composer etc, and the uncompleted discussion on messaging issues post-San Jose. He proposed that a two-week interval follow for discussion, corrections etc, and (assuming no major disputes) that a call for a vote could then be sent out in early October. This schedule would indicate a decided Committee Specification by mid-October.
The general sentiment was that a further face-to-face meeting is unlikely to be needed, given the current status of our work.