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Subject: feedback requested
Chairs: The OASIS Technical Advisory Committee (TAC, a committee of the OASIS Board of Directors) would like to get some feedback from the TC chairs regarding some possible changes to the way we manage our TCs. The OASIS TC Process is built around the philosophy of openness: any OASIS member can propose and form a TC on any topic, any OASIS member is allowed to participate, all TC proceedings are visible to the public, etc. This philosophy is extremely important to OASIS and we do not want to do anything that would change this. On the other hand, we have little oversight of what technical work OASIS does. With just about every new TC that we form we get questions from the public asking why OASIS is pursuing the new work. It appears that OASIS has no technical agenda. The TAC is concerned about this situation, and has been discussing ways in which to provide some sort of oversight over our technical work while not doing anything to restrict the openness of our process. The TAC has suggested the following plan, and would like to hear your comments before proceeding any further. 1. A Technical Architecture Board (TAB) would be organized consisting of representatives of the TAC, OASIS staff, TC chairs, invited experts, etc. 2. The TAB would define a set of "portfolios" or topic areas for technical work. For example, there could be a portfolio for e-business, another for conformance work, etc. Existing and new TCs would each be assigned to a portfolio by the TAB. The TAB would allocate available resources to the portfolios to encourage work that OASIS feels is important. 3. Each portfolio would include coordination, management, a common architecture as necessary, etc. to ensure that the TCs are working collaberatively. We haven't yet worked out all the details of this plan, but like the idea so far. I have looked at the official OASIS TC Process and find little that would need to be changed to accomodate this plan. This plan would seem to provide some oversight over our technical work without restricting the openness of our process. We would like to get your comments over the next few days; the board will be meeting next week on Wednesday and Thursday and would like to discuss this idea further. Feel free to discuss on this list, or send your comment privately to me. Please focus on the philosophy rather than the details of the suggestion. thanks </karl> ================================================================= Karl F. Best OASIS - Director, Technical Operations 978.667.5115 x206 karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org
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