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Subject: Re: Report from the NAPM meeting in Phoenix Jan 23
Kevin, thanks for representing CGM Open at that meeting. Perhaps they develop a need in the future once they want to illustrate what they sell... Dieter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin O'Kane" <kevoka@AUTO-TROL.com> To: <cgmopen-members@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:36 AM Subject: Report from the NAPM meeting in Phoenix Jan 23 > All- > > The National Association of Purchasing Managers (NAPM) had requested a > representative from CGM Open to attend an NAPM meeting in Phoenix Az to > kick off an XML initiative. I attended this meeting on Jan. 23. Also in > attendance was Laura Walker from OASIS. > > The purpose of the meeting was to assemble interested members of NAPM and > software vendors to develop a set of requirements for the non-direct > procurement process. Non-direct procurement means the procurement of goods > and services that do not directly go into the products a company sells. > These requirements are then to be used as a baseline for the evaluation of > all the XML based markup languages either under development, or released, > which pertain to the procurement process. A report, sponsored by the NAPM, > will be released which states which markup languages meet the NAPM > identified requirements for the indirect procurement process. NAPM does not > want to develop another ML, but would rather steer ML's already under > development or released, to satisfy these requirements. > > There were two presentations given at this meeting. The first was a small > tutorial on XML in general presented by the CTO of StrategicParts.com. The > second was a comparison of XML to EDI by Kevin Kail from XML Solutions. The > rest of the day was spent in small groups, committing to working on this > project, planning and starting the development of the requirements. > > They do not have a need for graphics on the web given their current goals. > > Kevin O'Kane > Auto-trol Technology Corp. >
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