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Subject: OASIS BoD Candidate information - Eric Newcomer
Dear OASIS Members: I'd like to call your attention to an article I wrote a few months ago on standards: http://news.com.com/2010-1071-984885.html The article summarizes my views pretty well, although it does use a bit of rhetoric to help improve readability. Nonetheless, the biggest issue confronting those of us working in the standards arena is determining the size and scope of the market addressable by standards. Conversely, it will be just as challenging to identify those areas of the market that are not appropriate for standardization. The Economist quoted this article in their annual IT review a couple of weeks ago: http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=1747362 The topic is the potential benefit to the computer industry of standardized software, and highlighted the current controversy over Web services standards: "The controversy points to a more general problem with technology standards: where to draw the line between the IT commons and the areas where firms should compete with proprietary technology. If the commons area is too large, there might not be enough incentive to innovate. If it is too small, incompatibilities could keep web services from becoming a standard way for computer systems to communicate." The challenge for OASIS is to understand and help achieve the right balance between the standards customers need for IT productivity and the technologies that need to be kept vendor-specific to form the basis of competition and profit. I started working in this area about thirteen years ago, when I was assigned to the Multivendor Integration Architecture (MIA) sponsored by NTT and the Service Providers' Integrated Requirements for Information Technology (SPIRIT) sponsored by the Telecom Management Forum and X/Open. I worked on teams with representatives of major telecommunication companies and major computer vendors to develop requirements, write specifications, and produce conformant products. I summarized the results in a journal article published later that same year: http://research.compaq.com/wrl/DECarchives/DTJ/DTJI03/DTJI03PF.PDF Today, although many of the same problems remain unsolved, XML promises a much better approach to IT standardization in a more mature industry, and OASIS is in a good position to provide needed leadership. I look forward to playing a role, and contributing to OASIS's success, based on the lessons learned from the previous in-depth work with both large customers and vendors, as well as subsequent work at IETF, OMG, and W3C, in addition to my experience at OASIS during the past couple of years. Regards, Eric eric.newcomer@iona.com 781 902 8366
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