[no subject]

Please keep in mind that these ideas are shot from the hip and that 
their impact on TC team dynamics would probably have to be carefully 
studied by the Oasis staff before adoption.  One way to maybe test the 
waters would be for Oasis to authorize one TC to adopt the next 
generation tools as a trial and report their findings based on 
comparison with experiences on prior TCs. To minimize impact on daily 
operations these tools could be implemented on a site external to the 
OASIS site, with access to the tools limited to only TC members and 
Oasis staff via accounts and passwords.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wachob, Gabe" <gwachob@visa.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:06 pm
Subject: RE: [xdi] An off-topic question regarding the Wiki

> I'm not speaking on behalf of Oasis, but my understanding is that 
> Oasis runs all the infrastructure associated with OASIS and they 
> have a very deliberate, methodical approach to rolling out new 
> infrastructure. A number of us have suggested Wikis before and its 
> my understanding that they are going through a requirements 
> collection phase for another round of TC tool "enhancements" (in 
> quotes because some folks feel the Kavi rollout was not 
> neccesarily a step forward). 
> 
> We've certainly brought up the desirability of tools like Wiki and 
> CVS (you can tell who comes from a software development background 
> ;) ) -- I'm not sure where in the process things are. 
> 
> Using these tools (esp Wiki) for standards development is a 
> relatively new thing. Those of us using Wikis since the beginning 
> have always thought they were great for this sort of activity, but 
> its not obvious the advantages of the Wiki mode of interaction. 
> Its somewhat subtle. 
> 
> If you would like to send a word of encouragement for the use of 
> Wiki, I'm sure the Oasis staff would be interested. 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php (probably a short email to 
> Karl Best, Jamie Clark, Jeffrey Lomas,  and Robin Cover would be 
> effective). Or even better, let Drummond continue to bang the drum 
> for these tools on the chairs email list.
> 
> 	-Gabe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barnhill William [mailto:barnhill_william@bah.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:33 AM
> To: XDI (E-mail)
> Subject: [xdi] An off-topic question regarding the Wiki
> 
> 
> If all work must be done on the OASIS server, who controls the 
> OASIS 
> servers? Is that a specific TC, or steering committee? Are they 
> short on 
> servers, as one thought is that we could offer to manage a server 
> on the 
>  condition that we are allowed to run a wiki.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Bill
>