Agenda Item for Next Meeting: Sponsoring and MaintainingReference Implementations

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Everyone,

With our pate as full as it was today, I decided not to introduce 
this topic today. So I would like to propose it for our next 
meeting's agenda:

Should we include reference implementations of EM Standards on 
SourceForge as part of our charter. I have an EDXL-RM Reference 
Implementation that is 95% done and I am looking for a suitable group 
to which I can hand if off.

This is a lead up to a proposal that the EM TC sponsor reference 
implementations for each of its standards as a way to provide an 
example for all implementations such that whatever set of a 
standard's features a vendor decides to implement within an 
application, an example will be available which the vendor can use as 
a starting point to build upon. This would also serve to help such 
third-parties as the NIMS Support Center to provide testing services 
to certify interoperability of vendor applications.

So, this would serve as a way to encourage adoption and develop 
higher levels of interoperability than would be possible without 
reference implementations. I think this requires serious thought and 
discussion because it represents a significant investment of future 
time and effort.

Cheers,
Rex

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Rex Brooks
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Starbourne Communications Design
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