TC Meeting Today

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We have our montly TC meeting today. Summer is always difficult, but if you can attend, please do. I may be the only one of us who happens to know the various reasons why many of us have cause to be personally discouraged. However, I want to remind you all that this work is critical and the need for us has never been greater.

The good news is that if we can find a way to renew our commitment and re-energize ourselves to take up the work despite some of our personal adversities, the vagaries of summer vacation season and our current lack of apparent progress, we can make real, tangible, significant progress in the fall, and more so after the election. While our personal timing, as I know only too well, may not be fortunate at the moment, the prospect for Q1-Q2 2005 is very propitious, provided we can set the stage now.

I don't want to go into details on the list about the concatenation of developments on the web services, emergency management, e-government and e-legal fronts, but all of them are coming to the same tipping point, excuse the buzz word/concept. That tipping point can be focused directly on us and we need to be prepared. Likewise, in terms of the architecture that supports IT, the focus of software development will also be on these same needs, the key pieces of functionality for which we can be conduit.

Let me remind you that we are uniquely positioned to be able to offer an unbiased existing structure for the public and private interests that need a way to harmonize the multitude of standards for the entire range of networked applications that must deal with individual humans. Why would anyone go through the grind of a standards working group/TC startup when there is one that can be joined and put to the very uses your needs dictate?

But we must be prepared to step forward credibly and make our case. Let me also remind you that it is down here in the trenches where the really important groundwork gets done, and we need to get this ground better prepared just in time for the moment that is now well over the horizon and approaching rapidly.

Time: Wednesday, 28 July 2004, 12:00pm to 01:00pm Eastern Time
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Rex Brooks
GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth
W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com
Email: rexb@starbourne.com