EEMA Comments on Action Plan

["Jeremy Hilton" <jhilton@viviale.com>]

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Thanks,
Steve
> Jeremy Hilton wrote:
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Herewith some initial comments on the Action Plan:
> 
> ECAF 1> Jeremy, I think the most relevant question (again) is what
> budget OASIS have to implement this action plan (which fortunately can 
> be called realistic rather than over-ambitious). That is where the PKI 
> Forum had most problems with, even though in those days they must have 
> had sufficient budgets - I fear they may not nowadays.. Especially 
> action item 2 (PKI interoperability testing, cfr. our pkiC) is known 
> to cost quite a bit, just to get people focused and hence get things 
> moving. I also hope, and we should urge them, that they will not 
> duplicate pkiC, but rather build on it, that's also what we did when 
> we embarked on pkiC early 2001: we used whatever was available and 
> useful coming from the PKI Forum.
> 
> ECAF 2> Jeremy, I fully support <ECAF 1's> comments. I would add that
> as well as pkiC, the OASIS activity should also take into 
> consideration the recent interoperability work undertaken in Japan.
> 
> I particularly support the concept of application guidelines/standards
> "cookbooks".. anything that OASIS can do to overcome the 
> real/potential interoperability issues for vendors and user 
> organisations should be welcomed. Providing some assurance that the 
> products from vendor "x" will work with products from vendors "y" and 
> "z" would be very very helpful in this increasingly "joined-up" world 
> of ours.
> 
> I will forward more as they arrive.
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> Jeremy Hilton
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