Call for Participation: OASIS Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI) TC

OASIS members & interested parties,

A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS Web Experience  
Management Interoperability (WEMI) Technical Committee has been proposed by  
the members of OASIS listed in the charter below. The TC name, statement of  
purpose, scope, list of deliverables, audience, IPR mode and language  
specified in the proposal will constitute the TC's official charter.  
Submissions of technology for consideration by the TC, and the beginning of  
technical discussions, may occur no sooner than the TC's first meeting.

The eligibility requirements for becoming a participant in the TC at the  
first meeting are:

(a) you must be an employee of an OASIS member organization or an  
individual member of OASIS, and
  

(b) you must join the Technical Committee, which members may do by using  
the "Join this TC" button on the TC's home page at [a].

To be considered a voting member at the first meeting, you must:

(a) join the Technical Committee at least 7 days prior to the first  
meeting (on or before 09 January 2012); and 

(b) you must attend the first meeting of the TC, at the time and date fixed  
below (16 January 2012).

Participants also may join the TC at a later time. OASIS and the TC  
welcomes all interested parties.

Non-OASIS members who wish to participate may contact us about joining  
OASIS [b]. In addition, the public may access the information resources  
maintained for each TC: a mail list archive, document repository and public  
comments facility, which will be linked from the TC's public home page.

Please feel free to forward this announcement to any other appropriate  
lists. OASIS is an open standards organization; we encourage your  
participation.

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[a] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wemi/

[b] See http://www.oasis-open.org/join/

=== Charter ===

The charter for this TC is as follows.

1.a Name of the TC

OASIS Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI) Technical  
Committee

1.b Statement of Purpose

Web Experience Management (WEM) is a redefinition or evolution of Web  
Content Management (WCM). Where WCM provides the foundation for collaboration  
by offering users the ability to manage content, WEM emphasizes the  
importance of the delivery of the aggregated content into a total Web  
Experience.

The purpose of the Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI) TC  
will be to define a simple domain model for WEM and an abstract feature set  
to be commonly implemented by WCM/WEM Systems. The TC shall also work in a  
forward looking manner and identify features that are useful but are not  
available in existing systems. It is a goal to explicitly use existing  
systems as a point of reference but be open towards extensions that may be  
generally useful.

Beyond the domain model and the features set, the TC will also specify a  
default binding as a lightweight, resource-oriented, HTTP-based protocol that  
will be focused on ease of consumption from today's web browsers (and web  
browser-like systems) as well as serversided integration technologies. Based  
on the evolution of WEM into the mobile space, the WEMI TC will include a  
particular focus on small processing and network overhead.

1.c Scope of Work 

The TC will accept input from various vendors' existing interfaces and  
domain models and other contributions for consideration without any prejudice  
or restrictions. These inputs will be evaluated based on technical merit in  
so far as they conform to this charter.

For the initial set of deliverables, the TC will target a very focused set  
of use cases:

- Display and Mashup Content from a WCM

- Index Content and Metadata

- Export all Content / Migration

The following use cases are out-of-scope for the initial set of  
deliverables:

- Entitlement and Access Control

- Versioning and Records Management

- Data Ingestion / Write operations

Also, this TC will engage in maintenance of the specifications it  
produces.

The tasks of the TC include:

- To articulate the principles of WEMI through formal specifications

- To assess the relationship of WEMI to related standards and industry  
efforts including (but not limited to) CMIS, WebDAV, and JCR (JSR-170,  
JSR-283)

- To define appropriate specifications for WEMI:

      * Abstract domain model, feature set, and operations

      * Lightweight, resource-oriented HTTP bindings

The TC shall also support the effort of producing a reference  
implementation and test suite that validate the specifications, both  
deliverables will be implemented as community open source projects.

Maintenance

Once the TC has completed work on a deliverable and it has become an OASIS  
Standard, the TC will enter "maintenance mode" for the deliverable.

The purpose of maintenance mode is to provide minor revisions to  
previously adopted deliverables to clarify ambiguities, inconsistencies, and  
obvious errors. Maintenance mode is not intended to enhance a deliverable or  
extend its functionality.

The TC will collect issues raised against the deliverables and  
periodically process those issues. Issues that request or require new or  
enhanced functionality shall be marked as enhancement requests and set aside.  
Issues that result in the clarification or correction of the deliverables  
shall be processed. The TC shall maintain a list of these adopted  
clarifications and shall new minor revision of the deliverables including  
these updates. After the first set of deliverables has been completed, the TC  
will continue to work on the next version of the specification. The next  
version may address new use cases or refine existing ones by extending the  
domain model and expanding on the feature set.

1.d List of Deliverables

The initial set of deliverables and projected duration:

- WEMI Abstract Domain model and feature set specification (September  
2012)

- WEMI resource oriented HTTP binding specification (September 2012)

1.e IPR Mode

The IP mode for the TC will be RF on Limited Terms

1.f Audience for the TC

The primary audience for the final output of this TC includes architects  
from WEM/WCM vendors and implementers, as well as system architects from  
organizations that use WEM systems.

1.g Language

The language in which the TC shall conduct business: English

Section 2: Non-normative Information

2.a Other Work

Identification of similar or applicable work that is being done in other  
OASIS TCs or by other organizations:

- WebDAV: Not Targeted at WEM

- CMIS: Not Targeted at WEM

- JCR: Not Targeted at WEM

2.b First Meeting

Date, time and place of the first TC meeting: 16:00 UTC (17:00 CET/11:00  
EST/8:00 PST), 16-January-2012, teleconference hosted by Adobe. 

2.c Ongoing Meeting Schedule

One-hour teleconferences will be held monthly and face-to-face meetings  
may be held occasionally. Meeting times and F2F locations will be determined  
by consensus of the TC members. The initial meeting schedule will be  
confirmed at the first TC meeting.

To be as inclusive and accommodating as possible, the TC will conduct its  
technical work primarily via its email list and issues tracker.  
Teleconferences and F2F meetings will serve platforms to reach consensus on  
outstanding issues.

2.d Proposers

Names, electronic mail addresses, and membership affiliations of at least  
Minimum Membership:

Cedric Huesler, Adobe, 

Craig Randall, Adobe, 

David Nuescheler, Adobe, 

Peeter Piegaze, Adobe, 

Thomas Sigdestad, Enonic, 

Sten Roger Sandvik, Enonic, 

Arje Cahn, Hippo, 

Ate Douma, Hippo, 

Berry van Halderen, Hippo, 

Serge Huber, Jahia, 

James Falkner, Liferay, 

Boris Kraft, Magnolia, 

Philipp Barfuss, Magnolia, 

Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo, 

Bertrand De Coatpont, OpenText, 

Conleth O'Connell, OpenText, 

Jens Huebel, OpenText Corporation, 

Mike Vertal, Rivet Logic, 

Dennis van der Veeke, SDL Tridion, 

Dominique Leblond, SDL Tridion, 

Jean McEvoy, TERMINALFOUR, 

Daniel Hinderink, TYPO3 Associaton, 

2.e Primary Representative Statements of Support

Carl Cargill, Adobe: "Adobe supports the OASIS WEMI TC charter as it is  
written. We believe the WEMI standard will improve the state of web  
experience management tools and result in a more positive experience for web  
users everywhere. We intend to support WEMI in our products and will support  
the specification development as well."

Thomas Sigdestad, Enonic: "Enonic supports the OASIS WEMI TC charter. We  
see the WEMI standard as a major step in lifting the WEM/WCM industry to the  
next level. WEMI will help fuel the next generation of seamless and rich web  
solutions - WEMI is 100% aligned with our mission: Webagility for the  
Enterprise. We look forward to support and contribute in this effort!"

Arje Cahn, Hippo: "Hippo B.V., the company behind Hippo CMS, supports the  
OASIS WEMI TC charter. The ability to bring together different streams of  
information from disparate content systems using a standardized API is part  
of our vision for a more contextualized web experience. We intend to support  
WEMI in our Hippo CMS product line."

Serge Huber, Jahia: "Jahia supports the WEMI TC charter. Jahia's next  
generation open source CMS has been relying, since its inception, on the  
vision of convergence between all types and sources of content through all  
web applications from web, document to portal, then, most recently, from  
collaborative to social content. That's why we believe the WEMI standard will  
help users break free from content silos and promote the use of open and  
interoperable technologies. We hope to work with other players in the open  
source industry to make sure that this new standard is as widely used as  
possible."

James Falkner, Liferay: "Liferay fully supports the OASIS WEMI TC Charter.  
We see immense benefits to improving the interoperability of WCM systems and  
enabling rich content consumption on modern web experience platforms."

Philipp Baerfuss, Magnolia: "Magnolia supports the OASIS WEMI TC charter.  
We know the benefits standardization brings to our customers and look forward  
to help define this important step in the future of Web Experience  
Management. We will share lessons learned from our own standardized  
publishing framework, Magnolia's Standard Templating Kit, and intend to  
support WEMI in Magnolia CMS."

Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo: "Nuxeo supports the OASIS WEMI TC charter. We  
believe it will be a good complement to OASIS CMIS and will help the  
development of powerful tools taking advantage of both standards."

Richard Anstey, OpenText: "OpenText supports the OASIS WEMI TC charter. We  
believe our experience with our own OpenText Web Experience Management  
product line will be instrumental in defining this standard. We are looking  
forward to collaborate with other key organizations on this definition, in  
order to help delivering a more positive experience for web users."

Mike Vertal, Rivet Logic: "Rivet Logic fully supports the WEMI Charter as  
industry WCM requirements have expanded to include the creation and  
management of rich, engaging and consistent Web experiences across multiple  
online channels that leverage numerous sources of content."

Kristen James Eberlein, SDL: "SDL enthusiastically supports the OASIS WEMI  
charter."

Jean McEvoy, TERMINALFOUR: "TERMINALFOUR is pleased to support the  
initiatives of the OASIS WEMI TC.  We believe that a collaborative approach  
to standards will improve interoperability in WCMS going forward. We are  
fully committed to implementing standards such as WEMI as a core part of our  
TERMINALFOUR Site Manager product."

Daniel Hinderink, TYPO3: "The TYPO3 project supports the OASIS WEMI TC  
charter. We believe the concept of Web Experience Management is a befitting  
vessel for the demands of the future of online communication. We will bring  
our commitment and Open Source perspective to the table."

2.f Convenor

David Nuescheler, Adobe, 

2.j Proposed Specification Titles

- Web Experience Management Interoperability, Abstract Domain Model and  
Feature Set Definition

- Web Experience Management Interoperability, Resource Oriented HTTP  
Bindings

Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

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