RE: XML.ORG Advisory Committee

[Bob Glushko <Bob.glushko@commerceone.com>]

I am sorry to have to follow up on this but...

We have been trying in ebXML and in our own company to get Microsoft to work
more cooperatively with us on XML standards initiatives, but they've been
telling us and everyone else that xml.org and ebXML, where Commerce One has
put a stake in the ground, are dominated by IBM so they aren't interested.
I don't think that the OASIS board should tell the paying sponsors of
xml.org who their chairman is, and the fact that IBM is treating the
chairmanship as something  it can pass down a line of succession makes it
difficult to refute Microsoft's dogma -- the only reason that Michael was
acting in the capacity of chairman was because IBM had done exactly that.
We have to be concerned about appearances and I think that we ought to have
someone from a nonthreatening company in prominent positions.

I'm not campaigning for the job. I just want some procedures within OASIS
and xml.org that would stand up to public scrutiny.

bob
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sutor@us.ibm.com [mailto:sutor@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 5:18 AM
> To: xmlorg@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: XML.ORG Advisory Committee
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> The OASIS Board sets up the committee and chooses the chair.
> We made the motion and passed it based on who had been acting
> in that capacity.
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> Bob Sutor
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> Bob Glushko <Bob.glushko@commerceone.com>@lists.oasis-open.org on
> 02/25/2000 06:52:42 AM
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sutor@us.ibm.com [mailto:sutor@us.ibm.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 2:54 PM
> > To: xmlorg@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Cc: parsons@xyenterprise.com
> > Subject: Re: XML.ORG Advisory Committee
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> > If Michael so restricted, we want to have someone else
> > additional on the committee who is able to do so. We
> > understand that each organization gets one vote.
> >
> > Jon, Terry?
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> 
> There is something more important here to discuss.  I don't 
> believe that
> the
> xml.org advisory committee ever voted Michael to be its chairman.  Bob
> Sutor
> was a temporary chairman, but that doesn't make the job IBM's 
> to pass down
> to whomever it chooses.
> 
> bob
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