Informal comment period for WS-Calendar

Have at it, folks. Please submit comments through the WS-Calendar comment mechanism and not to me.

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Toby Considine

Chair, OASIS oBIX Technical Committee
OASIS Technical Advisory Board
U.S. National Inst. of Standards and Tech. Smart Grid Architecture Committee

Facilities Technology Office
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Email: Toby.Considine@ unc.edu
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From: Considine, Toby (Campus Services IT)
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:20 PM
To: tc-admin@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: 'Mary McRae'; Laurent Liscia; Dave Wollman (wollman@nist.gov); 'Dave.Thewlis@calconnect.org'; wtcox@coxsoftwarearchitects.com
Subject: Request for Informal public comments

The WS-Calendar TC would like to request public comments on the current working draft, link below. This draft is not a committee specification, but given the high profile of this work, and the attention it will receive next week at Connectivity Week, I am asking that you assist me in drawing attention to this revision. We plan to hold the document stable for 30 days to allow public comment

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ws-calendar/download.php/37888/WS-Calendar-1%200-spec-wd-06.pdf

The document is essentially feature complete, and we believe it to be stable. We received late requests from those working on another Smart Grid Priority Action Plan to address the issues of Sequences of Operations and using the semantics of WS-Calendar to address them. Our work plan is to address these issues as a profile on existing BPEL work during the informal comment period of 30 days. The rest of the document will be stable.

The work is closely related to ongoing work by the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect). CalConnect is defining the core scheduling service interactions, i.e., scheduling an event, determining availability, etc., and publishing them as Cal-WS. The two groups have worked closely on the work to date. Interested parties should review their work in process as well.

Here's the URL to the CalConnect document:

http://www.calconnect.org/pubcomment/CD1004 Cal-WS Web Services API V0.3.pdf

Here is information about CalConnect Public Review & Comment process

http://www.calconnect.org/publicreviewdocuments.shtml

This also provides a link to the document, and also to the review and comment mailing list info and signup page.

Please offer any assistance you can in getting the word out. We need wide input to make sure that this small but essential service component can meets the service alignment needs not only of smart energy, but of the other domains that will use similar functionality.

Thanks

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