Member Call for Participation: DSML Mailing List

["Laura Walker" <laura.walker@oasis-open.org>]

Dear OASIS Members,

Bowstreet has requested creation of a mailing list for the purpose of
founding a Technical Committee to establish DSML as an open standard,
through OASIS, so
that developers and vendors will be able to adopt it into their systems.
The TC will also refine and enhance the standard, using version 1.0 as a
base.  We expect to add features from the list on
www.dsml.org/1.0/futures/index.html and others as decided by the TC.

This mailing list, dsml@lists.oasis-open.org, is now fully operational.

DSML is a markup language for representing directory services in XML.  With
a DSML standard, any XML-based application will be able to leverage
directory information expressed as XML.  Specifically, DSML will allow these
applications to utilize profile and resource information from directories in
their native environment, by providing the standard schema for representing
this meta-data in XML documents.  Such documents can then be used by
applications or transmitted via the Internet to other DSML-enabled
applications.  This effectively extends LDAP across firewalls and to any
Internet transport protocol - a major benefit to all inter-company efforts.

In order to ensure that DSML moves forward in an orderly fashion, we suggest
the following project plan of targets and expected participation level.  We
believe that naming metrics will both ease the process and align the
expectations of all participants.

Expected participation will include:
Face-to-face meetings from time to time, including an initial meeting around
the time of the OASIS meetings Paris this June, with a follow up in July
during Catalyst in San Diego.  The timing of these meetings is tentatively
set for the weeks of June 11, 2000 and July 23, 2000 respectively.
One to two conference calls per month.

Targets for completing preliminary objectives for the TC are as follows:

Objective	Target Date
Call for Participation 				4/27/00

Draft of Statement of Purpose			5/22/00

Completed Statement of Purpose		6/5/00
Completed Meeting Schedule			6/5/00

Initial Face to Face meeting			Week of 6/11/00 - TBD

Draft List of Deliverables			Week of 6/11/00 - TBD

Completed List of Deliverables		7/3/00
Second Face to Face meeting			Week of 7/23/00 - TBD

Target Set for Completion of Version 2.0	Week of 7/23/00 - TBD


James Tauber, Director of XML Technology at Bowstreet.com, will be the
discussion leader for the group.  We look forward to a lively and valuable
dialog through OASIS.



Best regards,

Mox Weber
Product Manager
Bowstreet Software
(603) 559-1900 x1577
mweber@bowstreet.com