Time to move on

[Martin Sachs <msachs@cyclonecommerce.com>]

ebXML friends and colleagues:

At the last CPPA TC conference call, I announced my departure from ebXML.

I retired from IBM on Feb. 1, 2003. I continued to work on the negotiation 
specification, under an arrangement with Cyclone Commerce, until the draft 
in progress was completed (May 2004) and have continued to participate 
since then. Meanwhile, my personal activities as a retiree have continued 
to grow. Beginning August 31, I will be going back to school, in a manner 
of speaking. Yale has a program under which an alumnus can audit any course 
in Yale College including participation in classroom discussion and 
preparation of assignments for criticism by the instructor. I have joined 
that audit program starting the upcoming semester and plan to actively 
participate in all phases of each course. In order to make room in my 
schedule for the Yale program, I am eliminating some other activities.

The past five years' activities with ebXML, starting in 2000 with the 
formation and leading of the CPPA TC, and later leading the Negotiation SC, 
have been extremely fulfilling, both professionally and personally. 
However, the time has come to move on.

I would like to wish the ebXML teams continued success and a growing 
population of using companies.


Best regards,
Marty Sachs




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Martin Sachs
standards architect
Cyclone Commerce
msachs@cyclonecommerce.com