RE: [chairs] OASIS given liaison membership at JTC1 SC34

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Ram, Chairs:

> OASIS should also have a policy that ensures there is inter-
> operability within relevant and related technical committees
> of OASIS.

While this is not a MUST in the normative TC Process, I've been treating
it as a SHOULD in the non-normative TC Guidelines. Maybe I can get this
changed. We realized quite some time ago that no one TC can do it all,
and that a lot of time and effort is wasted duplicating the work of
other groups from other organizations. So I've been devoting a lot of
effort the last few months to get relationships established with other
organizations to try to solve this.

We also need to make sure that the various OASIS TCs are working
together. We've set up a joint committee (JC) for the ebXML TCs, and
likely will invite other e-business TCs to join. In the coming months
expect to see some announcements related to our managing TCs as groups,
by topic. None of this will effect the bottom-up member-driven approach;
we will still allow members to set our technical agenda, and TCs will
still control their own charters and agendas, but we want to encourage
TCs to work together, jointly develop architectures, and make sure that
all of our specifications interoperate.


</karl>
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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ram Kumar [mailto:rkumar@msi.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:54 PM
> To: Karl F. Best
> Subject: Re: [chairs] OASIS given liaison membership at JTC1 SC34
>
>
> Congrats Karl. This is what OASIS should do, try to open its arms
> to work with any other standards groups to void duplicity and increase
> co-operation. This will enable OASIS to be called a true
> "Open" Standards
> Consortium. OASIS should also have a policy that ensures
> there is inter-
> operability within relevant and related technical committees
> of OASIS.
>
> Regards
>
> Ram
>
> > Chairs:
> >
> > I have very good news to announce. ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 has
> granted OASIS a
> > Category A Liaison membership in that committee. (See
> > http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0291.htm for the official
> > decision.) This means that representatives from OASIS can
> work with SC34
> > in doing their technical work, which is document description and
> > processing languages including SGML, Topic Maps, HyTime, etc.
> >
> > Ken or James: could you add a few words here about what
> SC34 is up to
> > these days?
> >
> > If your TC would like to work with SC34 please let me know
> so that I can
> > coordinate our representation there.
> >
> > If your TC knows of any other ISO TCs or JTC1 SCs that we could
> > profitablity liaise with please let me know so that I can
> work with them
> > to obtain membership. At the request of the UBL TC we have
> already made
> > an application to ISO TC154 for a liaison membership there.
> >
> > </karl>
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> > Karl F. Best
> > OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
> > 978.667.5115 x206
> > karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org
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