Re: HAVE Bed schema review

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Tom,

I believe we have already done that, including recruiting Sukumar to 
lead the effort to drive it in a task group within the EM-Msg SC. 
Unless you are suggesting we adopt it as is, we should be able to 
move it through the SC in a relatively short time, but we do have due 
diligence to do, and Sukumar is out of the country till mid March I 
believe.  However, Tim Grapes and I have volunteered to do what we 
can in the meantime, which means to review it. However, I do need to 
give you a heads up that it is now necessary to put it into the OASIS 
template and get it into the required formats, .doc, .pdf and .html, 
for the first public review, which is 60-days. I have suggested that 
we spend at least half of the SC's meeting time every other meeting 
(during the meeting that is held from 12:00 p.m. EST to 1:00 p.m. 
EST) on this work.

I will be on the road myself next week, from Tuesday to Friday, at 
the Fourth Medical Banking Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, leading 
a workgroup of the Medical Banking Project, so I can't do much next 
week. We still don't have a volunteer to co-chair, so the first time 
I can chair a meeting is the week of Feb. 27 to Mar. 3. That happens 
to be an off-week, but I would  be willing to chair a special, one 
time only meeting to review HAvBED, or HAVE, whichever is the correct 
name--at least one issue I can cite offhand.

Further, it looks like we will be moving the evening meeting to 5:00 
p.m. EST on Thursdays, which would make the next one of those 
meetings March 9, in order to get synched up with the TC meeting, and 
make it so that we only need to be mindful of EM meetings two weeks a 
month as opposed to three, which is what would happen if get out of 
synch with the evening meeting.

Personally, even with a calendar and pda and being as religious as it 
is possible for me to be with checking those synched calendars, I am 
still getting to meetings late. In fact I was 15 min. late this week 
for the evening meeting, which was out of synch with the normal TC 
meeting, though we had the special voting meeting the same day. So it 
is probably vital for me to arrange it so that EM stuff is only two 
weeks a month or the prospect for me to get back to being reasonably 
consistent about making meetings on time will fade.... I do the best 
I can, but we really do need a co-chair.

Ciao,
Rex

At 10:21 AM -0500 2/17/06, Tom Merkle wrote:
>I plan to make a recommendation in the EM TC meeting that we vote to 
>promote the HAVE Bed schema into the OASIS standards process from 
>the TC level. There is a possible opportunity to deploy EDXL-DE and 
>HAVE Bed in the immediate future.  To satisfy deployment criteria we 
>need to have them published as standards or at least in the OASIS 
>formal standards process.
>As a result please review the HAVE Bed schema for any "show 
>stoppers" or major concerns you may have.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom Merkle
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