See the below call for participation for the XML for Binary
Interchange conference (http://www.mitre.org/xml4bin/). Abstracts should be
submitted by 7 June 2004. Submission procedures are provided at the
site.
Apologies in advance, but I don't have the time to engage in a
protracted xml-dev discussion. Suffice to say that we believe there to be a
real issues that must be addressed and would welcome constructive
participation.
- Dan Winkowski
MITRE, 930 Gateway Blvd, Suite 200, Hampton VA 23666
Call for
Participation
21 - 22 September 2004
XML for
Binary Interchange
Addressing
Machine-to-Machine Interoperability & Tactical and Mobile
Computing
The AFC2ISR Center, AF CIO, and MITRE Corporation invite you
and your staff to participate in a Conference on the use of XML in
environments where binary information exchange protocols are typically
employed. The conference is sponsored in collaboration with the AF/XI and
ESC/NI3. Invitees include the U. S. Unified Commands, Military Services and
Defense Agencies, international organizations and industry.
The Conference objective is to
investigate the use of XML technology to facilitate realization of the DoD
Global Information Grid (GIG) as it applies to information exchanges conducted
in tactical and bandwidth constrained environments. This conference
explores developments in technologies which will permit the DoD to combine the
advantages of XML with the efficiency of binary-format information
exchange.
The conference will be held at the
MITRE Corporation, Langley Site facility, in Hampton, Virginia on 21 - 22
September 2004.
The meeting will focus on the use of
XML technology in the following subject areas:
Airborne Networking
* Employment of XML in
real-time, mobile, and limited bandwidth IPv6 networks,
* Concepts of operations and
associated enterprise services necessary to support the tactical
environment,
GIG
Integration
* Capabilities needed to
achieve seamless integration of fixed and mobile networks,
* Fast web
services,
*
XML compression and/or efficient encoding strategies,
* XML/binary gateways,
* XML configurable
messaging interfaces and gateways,
* Pervasive machine to
machine communication,
XML Messaging Standards
* Configuration
management,
* Convergence of standards
independent of networking constraints
For each of these areas the questions to be answered
are:
* Requirements
*
Opportunities
* Consequences for existing
Information Exchange Requirements (IERs)
* Technology Investment
* Migration
Path (options)
We
invite you to participate and to share your thoughts with others as well as to
learn from the experience of others. Please submit presentation
abstracts by 7 June 2004. The final conference agenda will be published
by
15 August 2004.
Additional conference information including the agenda,
registration and directions to the conference will be available at The MITRE
Corporation conference website http://www.mitre.org/xml4bin/
To accommodate a broad range of
participants, the conference will be conducted at the Unclassified security
level. The first day will be a public industry day open to all
participants. Day two will be restricted to DoD, DoD contractors, and
approved representatives of NATO, Australia, and New Zealand.
Please note that the cost of
transportation and quarters will be borne by the participants. A nominal
conference fee will be charged.
The MITRE Corporation Points of
Contact are Mr. Dan Winkowski, Mr. Ed Masek and Dr. Bob Miller, The MITRE
Corporation, 930 Gateway Blvd, Suite 200, Hampton VA 23666. Telephones:
757 825-9230.
