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Best, Karl
, Director, Technical Operations , OASIS , Billerica Massachusetts U.S.A.
Email: karl.best@oasis-open.org
Karl F. Best is the Director of Technical Operations for OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. Based in the Boston area, OASIS is a nonprofit, international consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of product-independent formats based on public standards. These standards include XML, SGML, HTML and CGM as well as others that are related to structured information processing. Members of OASIS are providers, users and specialists of the technologies that make these standards work in practice. Information about OASIS may be found at www.oasis-open.org. Mr. Best has been involved with OASIS since its founding as SGML Open in 1993, and was a director and Chief Strategy Officer of the consortium in 1997-98. He was previously employed by Novell, Adobe, and Sun Microsystems, designing and implementing systems for the creation and delivery of electronic documentation using structured information standards. He has been a long-time participant in standards efforts related to XML and SGML, and a speaker at numerous conferences.
OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) is an international, not-for-profit consortium that designs and develops industry standard specifications for interoperability based on XML. This session will describe the latest developments in OASIS technical work. In the past year the number of OASIS technical committees has grown four-fold, and many technical committees have progressed their work to completion and submission to OASIS membership for ratification. A number of new topics for technical work are being pursued in areas of interest to a large number of XML 2001 conference participants including Topic Maps and Web Services. This presentation will cover the status of current OASIS technical work, with an emphasis on what has happened in recent weeks and months, and discuss what the XML industry should expect to see from OASIS in the near future.
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