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Subject: TC Meeting Minutes, April 28, 2004
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: huml@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 08:20:50 -0700
Title: TC Meeting Minutes, April 28,
2004
Hi Everyone,
I apologize for being a bit late with the minutes for last
month's meeting, but it served a good purpose since writing it up
refocused my attention after two eventful weeks which I will report on
in our next meeting. The usual caveat applies: if you see something
that needs correcting, please let me know.
Here are the minutes for last month's
meeting:
April 28, 2004
Teleconference meeting of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical
Committee.
Dial in toll free: 877 950 6921
outside of USA toll: 1 203 277 0324
Roll Call:
Voting Members:
Rex Brooks
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
Russell Ruggiero
James Landrum III
Invited Guest:
Rob Nixon
Minutes taken by TC Secretary Rex Brooks
Meeting convened 12:05 p.m. Eastern Time.
Minutes of previous meeting accepted.
This meeting was held on the new normally scheduled second Wednesday
of the Month.
For the second time, the overlap with the Web 3D Consortium's Medical
Working Group, which James, Rex and Rob follow, caused a few minutes
of initial confusion since both are arranged by our contact at
NIST.
We had a quorum. As a result, decisions indicated in these minutes are
approved.
We began by voting to approve the revised Charter and Mission
Statement for the now-approved Mediation Subcommittee and Rex said
that he would get the new SC set up, and noted that this will improve
our chances for attracting new participation from corproate members
due to the increasing need through emerging technologies such as Web
Services for standard individual human profiling and preferences
markup language standards.
Russell reported on his trip with John Sarazen to the Emerging
Technologies Components Quarterly Conference held within the FOSE
Conference and Exposition in late March 2004. They met with Susan
Turnbull and Brand Niemann as well as attending some of the
presentations sessions and reported that the major topics of interest
were the registries of components made possible through ebXML RIM,
Registry Iinformation Model, and UDDI, Universal Discovery and
Description Information specifications. The Disaster Management
Interoperability Services program operating within FEMA, which Rex has
mentioned in connection with his work with the Emergency Management TC
in the context of development and deployment of the Common Alerting
Protocol, CAP, was also highlighted in discussions with Susan and
Brand who shared moderation duties in the Conference. Information
related to these programs was handed out to attendees.
Russell also reported on the XML.GOV Working Group April meeting he
attended. The meeting, as usual was chaired by Owen Amber, recently
promoted within the administrative offices of the Department of
Interior. Ressell reported that the most recent meetings had
highlighted the InfoPath product of Microsoft, which hosted the
meeting as IBM had hosted the previous meeting. There were also
presentations on using XML within the IRS and the overall progress of
adopting XML for the purposes of document and records management.
Russell oncluded his report by saying that our TC and associated
efforts are looked to by this group of governmental contacts as a
source for bringing possibly important new technologies to their
attention in addition to HumanML. Specifically, he noted the the core
components in Web Services and CAP are currently hot topics, and that
our ability to help bring understanding about these areas through out
liaisons are proving worthwhile.
As learned later, due to illness and family events, Sylvia was unable
to attend, so we could not be briefed on the recent Python Conference
that was held in Washington, D.C. simultaneously with FOSE. We look
forward to whatever update Sylvia will eventually be able to
supply.
Ranjeeth reported that his contacts may be of assistance in our
projected efforts to help members develop SBIR-STTR proposals for the
current topics being solicited by NSF, and will be in touch with
Educators For Social Resposibility for possible contributions to to
the new Mediation SC with the aim of bringing forward creative
conflict solutions.
Rex reported that he would be attempting to initiate threads to
discuss specific updates to the Primary Base Schema, with the hope
that we can finalize this before the summer vacation season exerts its
usual affects on all such work, virtually postponing decisions until
after September first here in the US.
Rob indicated that he would be unavailable to attend the first window
for our May meeting because he would be attending E3 Conference and
Exposition in Los Angeles during the week of May 11-16.
In terms of new business, no actions were taken to place new items on
which votes would be necessary in May on the agenda for May.
Rex indicated that he would be setting up the new Mediation SC, and
that the first order of business for the SC would be to evaluate needs
and establish requirements for the work to be done by that TC. He
firther indicated that he would specifically be looking at what, if
any, terms might be needed in the Primary Base Schema to accommodate
building a Basic User Profile that will be useful as the first step
beyond simple authentication of identity to add value in security and
web services and lay the foundation for preferences within the overal
MediationML framework for providing self-definition for Humans and
HumanGroups.
Rex also provided some description of the SBIR-STTR Proposals he is
working on and which are due by June 9, concentrating on:
* Immersive Environments for E-Communities in Medicine and
Emergency Management;
* Knowledge Discovery and Visualization, and Feedback for
Decision Making; and,
* Universal Access for Visually Disabled--Speech Recognition
and Dialog Managment for KD & Decision-Making.
Ranjeeth asked if Rex had gotten in touch with Mark Frautschi, whose
interested coincide with the Mediation SC, and Rex responded that he
hadn't received a response, but would try again now that the Mediation
SC was a reality.
We adjourned at 1:05 p.m. Eastern Time.
--
Rex Brooks
GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth
W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com
Email: rexb@starbourne.com
Tel: 510-849-2309
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