Subcommittee start-up

["Evans Paul" <evans_paul@bah.com>]

Many apologies to all of you for this late start.  Between an illness,
recovering from a vehicle accident and catching up with my real job, I
have found it difficult to start the sub-committee work.

At this point we have four members:
- Myself
- XiaoLi Dong
- Shivangi Nadkarni
- Arshad Noor

I have attached the Draft Implementation Plan for Testing.   Please
review of our tasks.  We may want to revise the action items and will
need to change the schedule to reflect our late start.

Because of the small size of the team, I don't feel it is realistic to
expect that we are going to develop test suites,  perform testing or
hold testing events.  The following is a list of items that I think we
can do:
- identify and work with organizations that have experience in test
suite development and testing
- create a publicly accessible reference source that consolidates the
work already completed, underway or planned
- publicize the efforts by those organizations

I also think we might work some on expanding the team. If you know of
anyone that might be a good contributor who is employed by an OASIS
member or is an individual member, please reach out to them and try to
recruit them.

You'll find that I am very flexible in how we go forward with our work.
We can probably do most of our collaboration through this email list.
Please don't hesitate to request a telephone conference if you would
like one.  I think I am permitted to use my company's service, so
arranging one should be pretty easy.

So let's get started!  I'd like you to share your thoughts with the
sub-committee within the next week.  I'll be following up on this
message with some thoughts of my own on the types of testing that we may
want to consider and to talk about some of the conferences I've attended
recently about where PKI is headed in the US government.

Hope to hear from you soon...

Paul Evans
Testing Sub-Committee Chair

Draft Implementation Plan for Testing.doc