Board Action on OASIS-W3C collaboration

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

All,

The bad news:  there was opposition within the OASIS Board, and there will 
be lots more pitfalls and details to be worked out.

The good news:  we did clear the first hurdle, with the OASIS Board 
approving submission to W3C for synchronous processing.  Now both OASIS and 
W3C have approved, *in principle*.  (Details tbd.)

Regards,
-Lofton.

At 08:54 PM 8/26/2005 -0400, Patrick Gannon wrote:
>Lofton,
>
>Here is the result.
>
>RESOLUTION 2005-08-26.04: RESOLVED, that the OASIS Board approves submission
>of the WebCGM 2.0 specification to an appropriate working group at the W3C.
>Passed by [6-3-1] vote.
>
>
>Please be aware that this is the Board approval for submission.  And as you
>can see, it was not unanimous.  The concerns raised by the OASIS Board
>Directors are legitimate, and will need to be addressed as we move forward.
>We (Jamie and I) still need to work out with W3C staff the conditions for
>submission to insure that there will be no divergence of specs and that any
>changes can be submitted back to the OASIS WebCGM TC without any IPR
>problems.  As soon as Steve Bratt gets back to me with a date/time for a
>conference call, I'll let you know.
>
>--
>Patrick Gannon