2004 Planning

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Team,

 

Some thoughts here as we start the New Year.

 

The Open House meeting at XML2003 is proving

to be a turning point for the CAM work.

 

We were able to identify areas we need to provide

materials for - and particularly brochures to explain

the value proposition of CAM to our intended

audiences - business process designers and

XML content programmers.

 

I've made a start on a draft brochure and will

post that once I've had chance to edit the

rough into something more readable.  To help

that process along I've also updated the brief

description of the project at Kavi and the SWIKI.

Please check that out and provide feedback - the

goal is to have a three paragraph take-away for

people on what CAM is, generally, mostly.

 

On the specification front - I've been working with

Martin Roberts on updating the details to match

the implementation Martin has in his jcam processor

and all that he has learned there.  We should have

a new 015 release available in the next few weeks

for team review.  The plan is to then take this and

make it our official V1.0 TC release.

 

Then from there we move the V1.0 spec' thru the

OASIS process and public review to be our first

official public release.

 

On the Registry front - we've identified the task of

providing an XML instance structure for storing CAM

metadata in the ebXML Registry - and we're talking

with the registry team about starting a formal effort

between us to make that a reality.  This will then

complete the <ContentReference> functionality

in our CAM specification.  This was all moved

significantly forward at the open house at XML2003.

 

Similarly I'm attaching a draft I posted to the BPSS

team last night showing how we can integrate the

CAM context mechanism with CPA and BPSS.

This is an extension of the documentation we

already have in our 014 specification - but now

proposed so that CAM can work seamlessly with

CPA and BPSS.

 

With all this happening I'm confident we are set

here to have a very successful 2004 and bring

CAM processing to a prominent position within

the OASIS family of specifications.

 

My thanks again for all your support and

confidence in our technology and I look forward

to continuing to work with everyone to make all

this happen for us in 2004.

 

DW.

 

OASIS-CAM-Specifications-Context-Management.doc