IBM Submits Common Base Events Specification to WS-DM TC

[Thomas Studwell <studwell@us.ibm.com>]

IBM is pleased to announce the submission of the "Canonical Situation
Format: Common Base Event Specification" (CBE) to the Web Services
Distributed Management Technical Committee (WS-DM) of OASIS.

This submission has been developed in collaboration with a number of
industry leaders and is being supported in this submission by Computer
Associates International, and Talking Blocks, Inc., both key members of the
WS-DM TC.  This submission will be moved for acceptance by the WS-DM TC for
consideration in the WS-DM TC standards on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003.  The
general principles behind the CBE specification were presented to the WS-DM
TC on July 28 during the WS-DM TC face to face meeting.

The document, Common Base Event_SituationData_V1.1.doc, has been posted to
the Reference Documents section of the WS-DM TC.

Thomas W. Studwell
Senior Technical Staff Member, Autonomic Computing Architecture
IBM Software Group
C151/Bldg 500
4205 S Miami Blvd, Durham,  NC 27703
(919) 254-7574 Fax: (919) 254-9082
studwell@us.ibm.com

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