OASIS, conformance and interoperability

[Michael Joya <mike.joya@xmlglobal.com>]

  In today's ConCall, the fact was brought up that we require 'at least'
3 vendor implementations to demonstrate interoperability to OASIS.
Interoperability has been brought up before and I've written a test
harness toward supporting it, but at this point I need other vendors to
interoperate with.

  What I'd like to ask the group is for a show of interest in targetting
this kind of interoperability directly. Note that this is a seperate
issue from having a conformance suite of software by which to test
specification compliance; however such a suite would obviously be
integral to the final framework.

  My motive here is to bring elevate the notion of interoperability
above the demonstration of a few business process cases. It is one thing
to show a system using known/predefined data for a marketing event. It
is completely different matter to test it using live arbitrary data
between anonymous parties. I am forming a list of vendors who are
willing to place their implementation on public ports for live message
exchanges.

  Please add the name of your company below if you are willing of
contributing to in the near future (pre geneva time frame). For now this
is a contact list of interested parties, not a pledged committal.

Interoperation Framework Participants:
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XML Global



  Also see my next email regarding the source code toolkit that I am
offering to any companies wishing to accelerate their efforts towards
these ends. 




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