WSDM Specification publication schedule

[Heather Kreger <kreger@us.ibm.com>]

Hi Folks, Here's a best guess at our
schedule from committee draft to standard. 

According to the Process for OASIS:

1.        committee
draft Dec  10th
2.        notify
oasis Dec 10th that we have a committee draft
3.        Notify
TC about OASIS IPR Dec 10th
4.        Post
for member review – ending Jan 30
        a.
       clean links on public home page to documents
directly
        b.
       clean links to schemas/wsdls on public
home page (send to Webmaster to be posted at URLs for the namespace)
        c.
       email to Jamie to post announcement

        d.
       send Carol a paragraph for OASIS news
        e.
       send reminder to review to members on
Jan 3rd
5.        Update
spec, respond to all comments, and revote committee draft. Ballot starts
Feb 4 and ends Feb 11 end ballot
6.        Vote
to submit for member vote (simple majority) Feb 11
7.        Feb
15 send to OASIS for member vote
        a.
       Need at least 3 companies to say using
WSDM
         
      i.        IBM
has ETTK
         
      ii.        HP
has Apache contribution
         
      iii.        CA
has a WSDM product 
         
      iv.        Web
Methods may be able to commit on use of spec
         
      v.        Tibco
may be able to attest
         
      vi.        Hitachi
may be able to attest
8.        
March 1 member vote familiarization starts
9.        
March 16 member vote starts
        a.
       remind everyone to vote
10.        
March 30 member vote finishes, OASIS Standard
        a.
       need 57 to poitive vote (15% of 365)
        b.
       need <57 negative vote

Heather to talk to Jamie and Michael
Weiner about any flexibility to get out in the Feb review cycle. 

Heather Kreger
STSM, Web Services Lead Architect for SWG Emerging Technologies
Author of "Java and JMX: Building Manageable Systems"
kreger@us.ibm.com
919-543-3211 (t/l 441)  cell:919-496-9572