[announce] Interoperability Summit--Orlando 27-28 June

[Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Please join OASIS at the next Interoperability Summit, where standards
developers from around the world will gather in Orlando, 27-28 June 2002
to coordinate development of electronic business specifications.

Building on core issues identified at the first Summit meeting last
December, the June event will focus on removing barriers to
interoperability and managing against duplication of effort. Several
tactics for encouraging real collaboration between e-business standards
groups were targeted in the first meeting, and we now plan to actively
move forward to implement solutions.

The multi-lateral, neutral forum provided by the Interoperability Summit
offers a great opportunity for standards bodies and industry consortia
to share information, explore synergies and zero in on areas where
convergence makes sense. One goal of the Interoperability Summit will be
to create a set of common metadata for use in standards registries
around the world. Agreeing on metadata to describe completed standards,
as well as specifications in-progress, will make it easier for us all to
recognize and avoid potentially duplicative efforts.

The June Interoperability Summit will also focus on the various
initiatives underway to define core vocabularies and related best
practices for enabling e-business, including:

>UN/CEFACT's eBusiness Transition Working Group (eBTWG)
>ASC X12's E-Business Cross-Industry XML architecture
>OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee
>Open Applications Group Integration Specification
>OMG's Model Driven Architecture Initiative

The Interoperability Summit is organized by HR-XML, OASIS, OMG, and XBRL
and is open to everyone interested in advancing standards development.
Program and registration details are posted at
http://www.omg.org/interop/program.htm.

Please contact me if you have any specific questions. We look forward to
seeing you in Orlando.

Best regards,
Carol

____________________________________________
Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
Tel: +1 978.667.5115 x209


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