[egov] OASIS E-GOV TC - DELIVERABLES

[john.borras@e-envoy.gsi.gov.uk]

Diane

Thanks for an interesting discussion yesterday.  It set me thinking about what is the ultimate output from the TC, hence I'm copying in the whole membership on this note.  

We talked a lot about the need for matrices of services and standards, and I believe that is ultimately what we should as a TC be aiming to produce and publish - a set of matrices for Services/Functions, Infrastructures etc that show for each particular aspect of e-government our recommended standards.  This would be invaluable to governments, particularly those that are new to the e-government work, and those communities of governments like us in the EU who are looking to join up on service delivery.  Clearly we cannot mandate these standards but it would send clear messages to governments around the world, and their IT suppliers, which are the standards they should give serious consideration to.     

On that basis I've sketched out a matrix for your Services focus along the lines of what we discussed yesterday, and one for what I'm calling Infrastructures.  This is a first cut and we can develop it and add to it as we go.  I will be suggesting to the TC on Wednesday that we need another Sub-committee to address the infrastructure issues.    The role of both these SCs would in effect be to populate these matrices, and that of course will require looking at what's the current standard if any , whose doing what, where are the gaps that need new work and instigating that work, etc as we discussed yesterday.

I see the role of the Best Practices SC to then produce case studies on as many of these aspects as possible and they can be cross-referenced in the matrices.  The ebXML/Web Services SC would feed into many aspects of the matrices both as solutions to services and also aspects of infrastructure.

As I said I'll add this to the agenda for the TC meeting on Wednesday as I think it would help us all if we had an agreed vision of the end point of our work.   Views in the interim from all would be welcomed.

Apologies that this is only in Word format but I haven't got Open Office on my laptop.

Regards,
John

e-gov TC Matrix.doc