Regrep 28 Jan conf call notes

[Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net>]

OASIS Regrep TC Conference Call
Friday 28 January 2000
Minutes

attending:

Terry Allen, Commerce One
Lisa Carnahan, NIST
Robin Cover, ISOGEN
Ron Daniel, DATAFUSION
Duane Nickull, Goxml.com
Ernest Nishiseki, Dun & Bradstreet
Ron Schuldt, UDEF
Priscilla Walmsley  XML Solutions

agenda:

 - discuss agenda, new items
 - XML.org
 - Open Forum report
	including XMI 1.1 and concrete DTDs
 - EBXML update
 - new items
 - adjourn

Terry reports news of xml.org's call for an implementation
by xml.org members and the Sun and Documentum response.

Terry reviewed ebxml-regrep agenda for Orlando meeting from
Scott Nieman's email; Duane mentions the repository Goxml
has built, which is to be demo'd in Orlando, and we agree
that some cross-talk among working groups will be needed
at the meeting.

Terry reports on his work on XMI and the IBM toolkit.

Ron Daniel reports on OCLC meeting at OFMR (they own Dewey),
and Terry reports on sessions in the OFMR.  Further report
later when the presentations are up on the Web.  URLs for
sessions mentioned are:

  http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/doc/reports/annual/1999/

(background only)

  http://hmrha.hirs.osd.mil/mrc/

(Metadata Registry Implementation Coalition)

Ron S mentions TDAN.com, a global data modelling organization,
which has a newsletter (The Data Administration Newsletter,
no fair using articles in acronyms), in the  

  http://www.tdan.com/pubpers9910.htm

issue of which is an interesting article.

Terry reminds everyone that the deadline for volunteering to
be a voting member (see previous email) is 14 February.

Adjourned.

details for next call:

Friday 11 Feb 00
9-10 AM Pacific
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internat'l (1 line) 415-228-4586
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leader:  Terry Allen
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