I would like to add the following
item to the January 6 teleconference agenda.
Our next face-to-face meeting is
scheduled for Chicago, March
22-24, in conjunction with the ABA Tech Show.
OASIS has scheduled a conference
in New Orleans, April
26-27. The two days following the conference have been set aside for TC
meetings and a general OASIS membership meeting.
It might be advantageous for us to
meet in conjunction with the OASIS meeting, especially if our Legal XML Member
Section Steering Committee were to urge all of our sister TCs to gather there
to compare notes and plans.
I reproduce below the call for
presentations posted on the list a week or so ago which contains a brief
sketch of the plans for the meeting. Chet Ensign, who is a member of our
TC, is part of the planning committee. Perhaps he would be willing to
shed more light on this issue for us.
The OASIS Symposium on
Reliable Infrastructures for XML
> April 26th and 27th,
2004 in New
Orleans, Louisiana
>
> Call for
Presentations
>
> OASIS, the
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
> Standards, invites
you to submit a proposal for a presentation, panel
> discussion or
tutorial for the OASIS Symposium on Reliable
> Infrastructures for
XML. The goals of the symposium are to:
>
> * Provide a forum for
OASIS Technical Committee members to exchange
> ideas and present
results of ongoing work, works-in-progress, etc.;
> * Identify areas
where coordination between standards efforts is
> needed to promote
interoperability;
> * Identify
unaddressed topics where standards development is needed;
> * Enable outside
experts to present issues / opportunities to OASIS
members.
>
> The symposium will be
followed by two days available to OASIS
> Technical Committees,
Joint Committees and Member Sections for
> face-to-face working
sessions. The OASIS Annual General Meeting will
> also be held in
conjunction with the symposium.
>
>
>
Overview
>
> Many different (and
partially interchangeable) technologies are
> proposed or available
to increase the reliability of XML-based
> messaging and
networking infrastructure. These include technologies
>
applied:
>
> * At the transport
layer (e.g. reliable messaging specifications);
> * At the application
layer (e.g. transaction protocols);
> * At intermediate
levels (e.g. routing, point-to-point compared to
>
end-to-end);
> * By using
Message-Oriented Middleware as a carrier for XML messages.
>
> We define "reliable"
to mean that implementing one or more of these
> technologies in an
infrastructure removes some of the burden of
> ensuring application
integrity from software programmers and
>
architects.
>
> The OASIS Symposium
is focused on exploring the current state of these
> technologies and
exploring areas where open standards are needed.
>
>
>
Instructions
>
> The symposium program
committee invites you to submit a proposal for a
> presentation, panel
discussion or tutorial that addresses technologies
> and standards for
reliable XML infrastructures.
>
> Presentations should
be 30 minutes long including question and answer.
> Sessions will consist
of related presentations, ending with a
> question-and-answer
session directed to the presenters.
>
> Panel sessions should
be 60 minutes long. Proposals for panels should
> include the topic,
3-to-4 potential panelists (name and/or role) and
> proposed format (e.g.
Q&A, short presentations).
>
> Tutorials should be
1/2 day sessions. Tutorial proposals should state
> intended audience and
learning objectives.
>
> Proposals should
address topics in reliability as applied to XML-based
> communications at the
technology and implementation levels, ideally
> driven by usage
scenarios. Special consideration will be given to
> proposals
that:
>
> * Compare and
contrast multiple related technologies (clear
> comparisons of
published and forthcoming XML transaction protocols)
> with a view toward
guidance for application architects;
> * Support and
consider decisions about choice of appropriate
> technologies (e.g.
use of reliable messaging and simpler protocols
> rather than
transactional termination protocols);
> * Place OASIS
technologies in a broader context of competing or
> complementary
specifications (e.g. relating OASIS work to the variety
> of published reliable
messaging specifications);
> * Consider
alternative approaches to transaction management (e.g.
> local rollback versus
compensation-based protocols);
> * Compare reliability
techniques for environmental models containing
> benign threats versus
malign threats;
> * Consider techniques
for ensuring accountability of origin and
>
receipt;
> * Discuss the impact
of digital signatures and encryption on reliability
>
techniques.
>
> OASIS will publish
proceedings of the symposium. Authors should
> arrange for any
necessary releases for publication prior to submission
> of their
proposal.
>
> To submit a proposal,
please send the following information by email
> to
>
symposium@oasis-open.org:
>
> * The full contact
details (name, affiliation, email, phone, postal
> address) of one
presenter who will act as the primary contact for the
> proposal or panel
discussion;
> * The full list of
authors;
> * A 1-page abstract
outlining the subject and key points of your
> proposal, panel
discussion or tutorial.
>
> All submissions will
be acknowledged.
>
>
> Important
dates
>
>
Symposium
26th and 27th April
2004
>
Location
New
Orleans
> Proposals
Due
9 February
2004
> Notification to
submitters 15 March
2004
> Materials
Due
12 April
2004
>
>
> Program
Committee
>
> The Program Committee
is the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB):
>
> * Karl Best,
OASIS
> * Derek Coleman,
HP
> * William Cox,
BEA
> * Chet Ensign,
LexisNexis
> * Chris Ferris,
IBM
> * Eduardo Gutentag,
Sun
> * Jackson He,
Intel
> * Tim Moses,
Entrust
> * Krishna Sankar,
Cisco
> * Pete Wenzel,
SeeBeyond
>
> For further
information, send email to symposium@oasis-open.org.
>
>
John M.
Greacen
Greacen Associates,
LLC
HCR 78,
Box 23
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New Mexico
87046
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505-780-1450
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