RE: [emergency] IAC Architecture White Papers published

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

It's just difficult to take any group, government or 
otherwise, that discusses standards for interoperability 
but only publishes their papers in proprietary PDF formats.

Slow learners, even after spending $4 billion + on CALS 
only to have a group of colleges kids and a network wonk 
hand them their heads.

len

From: Eliot Christian [mailto:echristi@usgs.gov]

The attached press release announces that the Industry
Advisory Council's Enterprise Architecture Shared Interest
Group (IAC EA SIG) published several Industry White Papers,
available at http://www.iaconline.org/

I would especially recommend the paper on "Interoperability
Strategy - Concepts, Challenges, and Recommendations". This
paper frames the major issues from an international standards
perspective, using an architecture centered on services with
defined semantics as well as common syntax. It offers a solid
foundation with specific principles that can be adopted and
implemented today, ranging from basic business processes up
to networked information discovery.