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Subject: Pleassssed to announce
We are pleased to announce that the Bronx Zoo Cobra (www.twitter.com/BronxZoosCobra) has been appointed to succeed Mary McRae as OASIS Director of Standards and TC Administrator. Our heartfelt thanks again to Robin Cover, who has contributed heroic efforts to OASIS, serving diligently as temporary TC Administrator in the interim, while continuing to fulfill his many other duties. He was last seen walking down a hill to a Texas pond, with a big smile on his face. Bronx Zoo Cobra is a 20 cm venomous Egyptian cobra snake. Prior to accepting this position, she was at large in New York City: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/03/28/2011-03-28_bronx_zoo_egyptian_cobra_still_on_loose_visitors_edgy_excited_as_reptile_house_c.html Egyptian Cobras grow to about 2 meters long, and prefer a diet of mice, though their neurotoxin can be fatal to humans. Like other standards professionals, generally they are feisty when young, but mellow with age: http://www.livescience.com/13441-missing-cobra-bronx-zoo.html Bronx Zoo Cobra is responsible for the background noise on teleconferences for many standards committee meetings. She also served as a co-author of the JSSSSSSSSON specification. As an accommodation for localization issues, for those TCs who do not operate in Parseltongue, all official OASIS specification comments will be delivered in 140 characters or less, via Twitter and identi.ca. This method was successfully prototyped by W3C last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DNq42A6Llg However, some modifications to the encoding will be needed. Bronx Zoo Cobra will employ compact IETF RFC 5841 encoding (TCP Option to Denote Packet Mood) to indicate the status of a submitted specification: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5841 RFC5841 Spec ASCII Mood Status ===== ==== ==== :) Happy Approved :( Sad Not valid :D Amused Not well-formed %( Confused Wrong file format :o Bored Typos :O Surprised Nothing but typos :P Silly No normative statements :@ Frustrated No conformance clauses >:@ Angry No sense :| Apathetic Requires license ;) Sneaky Has patents >:) Evil Has undisclosed patents Please welcome our new Director of Ssssssssstandardss. Date: April 1, 2011: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day
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