OASIS IRC info

["John Evdemon" <John.Evdemon@microsoft.com>]

As promised, sorry for the belated follow-up.

 

OASIS is running an IRC server available at [irc.oasis-open.org] on ports 6667 (default) and 6669.

 

OASIS has expressed the purpose and usage of irc in the following manner:

• This server is available as a convenient, transient side-channel for real-time meeting coordination and similar intermittent unofficial communications.   It is NOT access-limited, and does NOT constitute official records of the TC, nor a channel for contributions of work.  Contents of the IRC channels are NOT necessarily spooled or archived to the official TC records, during this beta phase.  Any official work of the TC must be placed elsewhere:  reflected in e-mail, meeting minutes, documents uploaded to the TC's repository or other official channels.
• During its initial beta use, we suggest that TCs use a single local channel (preface = "&") and a name string identical to their TC short name (e.g. "&wsbpel").
• Anyone can create a channel, if it is not already created, simply by joining the channel.  The first person to create the channel will be the channel's operator. 
• OASIS suggests that a TC chair or designee serves as the channel operator.

There are some additional (unsupported) tools we could use to capture an irc chat session and format it into the minutes.

 

If you are new to irc you can download mIRC here (Windows only): http://www.mirc.com/get.html 

 

If you think this would be useful during a conference call please let us know. 

 

Diane and John