Request for creation fo the Interoperability/Conformance TC

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REQUEST FOR CREATION OF THE Interoperability/Conformance TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Members of the Conformance mail list have proposed to form an  OASIS technical committee chartered to
provide a forum where interested parties can discuss issues that are  pertinent to the interoperability and conformance of XML-based  recommendations.  The proposed deliverables of the TC are as follows: 1) Develop  What is Conformance Testing?  document.  2) Develop guidelines for building conformance test suites.  3) Provide on-going support of completed test suites.  4) Provide support for XML-related conformance testing efforts.  5) Identify potential XML-related recommendations that can benefit  from a conformance testing effort.  6) In case of lack of an appropriate OASIS TC, to provide a forum for  review of donated test suites.
In the year following its proposed formation, the TC is  expected to meet at  XML Europe, Paris, June 14 2000 for an introductory meeting.
Future meetings will be inconjunction with OASIS sponsored events, such as XML '2000, Dec 2000. The TC intends to meet intends to meet regularly by phone,  NIST having agreed to provide phone conference services.  The following OASIS members and employees of OASIS member  organizations have nominated themselves to serve as voting  members of the TC and have accepted the purpose,  deliverables, and meeting schedule described above. Lynne Rosenthal () Mark Skall () Mary Brady () John Evdemon () Lofton Henderson () Alfred Boseman II ()  The [proposed] chair(s) of the TC is/are  Lynne Rosenthal Mark Skall  As leaders of the Conformance list, we hereby request  that the ACTC create the OASIS Interoperability/Conformance Technical Committee  with the members listed above and empower it to fulfill its  described purpose, including the power to form such  subcommittees as are provided by parliamentary authority. Lynne Rosenthal NIST  1+301-975-3353  Mark Skall NIST  1+301-975-3264

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