CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: OASIS INTEROPERABILITY/CONFORMANCE MAILING LIST

[Norbert Mikula <Norbert@DataChannel.com>]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:  OASIS INTEROPERABILITY/CONFORMANCE MAILING LIST

The membership of OASIS is hereby notified that the OASIS Advisory Committee
on Technical Committees (ACTC) has authorized Mary Brady and Lynne
Rosenthal,
NIST, to institute a mail list for the purpose of organizing an OASIS 
technical committee to be called Interoperability/Conformance.  A statement 
of purpose appears at the end of this message.

All individual and institutional OASIS members and all employees of OASIS
member organizations are hereby invited to join the new list.  Directions
for subscribing to the list are given following the statement of purpose.

Discussions on the list will begin April 10, 2000.  At that time, persons
who
have subscribed to the list will be asked to file statements of their
ability
and desire to engage in the work at a level consistent with the operation of

an OASIS technical committee.  At a date not less than one week following
the
call for affirmations of commitment to the work of the proposed committee, a

list of those agreeing to the conditions of participation will be submitted 
to the board as prospective members of the committee.

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of the OASIS Interoperability/Conformance Technical Committee is

to provide a forum where interested parties can discuss issues that are 
pertinent to the interoperability and conformance of XML-based
recommendations.

The proposed deliverables of the TC are as follows:

1) Develop "What is Conformance Testing?" document.
2) Develop guidelines for building conformance test suites.
3) Provide on-going support of completed test suites.
4) Provide support for XML-related conformance testing efforts.
5) Identify potential XML-related recommendations that can benefit
   from a conformance testing effort.  
6) In case of lack of an appropriate OASIS TC, to provide a forum for 
   review of donated test suites. 

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Norbert H. Mikula 
Chief Technology Officer/DataChannel
Norbert@DataChannel.com 
Chief Technical Officer/OASIS
Norbert.Mikula@Oasis-Open.org 
DataChannel, 600 108th Avenue NE 9th Floor, Bellevue, WA 98004
Phone: 425.462.1999 Fax: 425.637.1192 <http://www.datachannel.com/>