RE: [egov-ms] OASIS eGOV STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING - PAPERS

[Colin Wallis <Colin.Wallis@dia.govt.nz>]

Many thanks Steve

 

It looks like a really useful conference. I for one would really love to know what the EU’s ICT standardisation policies are…and no doubt others using profiles of OASIS specs would as well.

 

If something like ‘STORK SAML’ was any example to go by, one can’t help but get the sense of potentially avoidable ‘wheel re-inventing’ in the way the profile is loosely based on SAML, but unlikely to be capable of interoperation with other SAML profiles, even if vendors could be convinced to implement the features in their products.  Individual member states seem to have a far more pragmatic view to profiling, which is good news of course.  

 

Wouldn’t it be great if the EU came out with a policy like..

 

‘We will profile existing specs and not create our own wherever possible. When we do, we make an explicit choice between aggregation and composition, (preferring aggregation so that when X falls over, Y doesn’t fall with it).  We will keep the existing open specification schemas intact, so when we add our EU requirements, we do that as ‘sub containers’ so that the existing schema still parses successfully’  

 

Cheers

Colin

 

From: Steve Mutkoski (LCA) [mailto:Steve.Mutkoski@microsoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 September 2011 5:12 a.m.
To: John Borras; egov-sc@lists.oasis-open.org; egov-ms@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [egov-ms] OASIS eGOV STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING - PAPERS

 

As I just mentioned in the course of our discussion, there is an interesting presentation or two on EU ICT Standardization policy, including an appearance by Liliana Brykman (Director

Regulatory Policy, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission).  The conference is: Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology 28 - 30 September 2011 in Berlin, Germany and I have attached a conference flyer.

 

From: John Borras [mailto:johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 1:55 AM
To: egov-sc@lists.oasis-open.org; egov-ms@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [egov-ms] OASIS eGOV STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING - PAPERS

 

Attached are the papers for our Steering Committee meeting next Monday, 12^th  Sept, commencing at 19.00 CET.   The meeting is open to all members of the Member Section who are welcome to attend.  The conference call number(s) are in the Agenda file attached.

 

I want to spend the majority of this meeting and our next F2F one at the International Cloud Symposium having an in-depth review of our purpose and future direction.   Recently our efforts have flagged not least because of the problems with the MS funding ballot, but with that coming to a conclusion one way or another in the next few weeks, now is an appropriate time to review our Work Programme, copy attached, and decide how we can re-invigorate our efforts.  So please give this some thought and come to the meeting with some bright new ideas!  

 

Regards

John Borras

 

Chair OASIS eGOV MS Steering Committee

 

m. +(0)44 7976 157745

Skype:  gov3john

 

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