Fwd: [bcm] Close BCM TC? (BCM is needed NOW more than ever!)

Carl

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From: David RR Webber (XML) <david@drrw.info>
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Subject: RE: [bcm] Close BCM TC? (BCM is needed NOW more than ever!)
To: carl mattocks <carlmattocks@gmail.com>
Cc: McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>, bcm@lists.oasis-open.org

Carl,

Sometimes OASIS work has to go where the "big guys" fear to tread.

The EPR work offers templates for work processes and task cards with an open public standard.

How relevant is this?

Check - iPhone, Android, Sharepoint / InfoPath, Ruby forms, ERP from SAP and Oracle, Facebook - all wonderful people enablers - except - none of them can talk to each other.

Since OASIS now appears to want to see specification production happening every 6 months within a TC - I think we start moving out on this.

Yes - its a big task needing real funding to complete the core XML tasks - but there is much we can do besides - while we sort out that funding.

Suggest we do the "top part" of the specification - Executive Summary, Introduction and initial ToC. That will keep us "legal" with OASIS - and then six months from now - we can see what resources we have to do the next piece. You never know - maybe Google Foundation of similar will fund us then and provide some fulltime resources?!?

Rome was not built in a day.

Thanks, DW

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Subject: Re: [bcm] Close BCM TC?
From: carl mattocks <carlmattocks@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, August 07, 2009 4:55 pm
To: bcm@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>

Folks:
We have to decide if the EPR work and the lessons learned from the 70+ effort can be used to create additional BCM guidelines.

Please reply by email by August 17th if you are able to contribute to a new work effort

thanks

Carl Mattocks

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org> wrote:

Section 2.15 of the TC Process:
The TC Administrator may close a TC that fails to conduct at least one Quorate Meeting or conduct any Specification Ballots during any six month period; whose membership falls below the Minimum Membership; which has not completed its deliverables within the schedule listed in its Charter; or which has failed to show progress towards achieving its purpose as defined by its Charter.

The most recent meeting minutes seem to be from 2008; there are no calendar entries for 2009, and the only deliverable noted in the Charter is the original BCM specification which was approved in 2006.

Is there further work to be done by the TC on the BCM specification or additional specifications to be created? Or should we declare victory and close?

Regards,

Mary

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