RE: [egov] RE: Starting Discussion to Get Your Advice and Help withE-Forms for E-Gov

[Ann Wrightson <awrightson@hedra.com>]

Sue,

I fully agree with your points to John Borras regarding harmonization
and avoiding & overcoming overlaps. From my perspective, one of the most
serious problems in doing that in practice is the number of different
bodies and committees  involved, with the consequent number of meetings,
mail-lists etc. My "main" forum of standards activity is an ISO
committee; around that I try & keep in touch with some other relevant
stuff; that tends to come & go in my bandwidth according to what I'm
working on this month. I know that I must miss a lot; however, I just
don't have the time to find out!

Knowing that this is not untypical amongst standards-folks, I would
strongly encourage you to find, in San Diego, a way of making things
simpler and easier to "see" - rather than setting off new activities
that the wider community of relevant people may or may not be able to
track. 

Best regards,

Ann W.