OASIS MEMBERS ONLY

OASIS OPEN
MEETING OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Teleconference
Wednesday, October 31, 2001

Attendees:

Directors

Position

Colin Evans

Director and Board Chair

Norbert Mikula

Director and Board Vice-Chair

Patrick Gannon

Director and interim President/CEO

Jim Hughes

Director and Secretary/Treasurer

Una Kearns

Director

Christopher Kurt

Director

Simon Nicholson

Director

Michael Weiner

Director

 

Others Present

Lofton Henderson

CGM Open

Karl Best

OASIS Director of Technical Operations

1. Opening and Agenda Approval. Colin Evans called the meeting to order at 10:00 am and the announced agenda was approved.

2. Previous Minutes, Action Items, Secretary Comments. Previous minutes were approved:

Resolution 011031-01. Resolved unanimously: That the Minutes of the 19 October 2001 Board meeting are approved.

3. Financial Status and Actions. Patrick presented the current financial status and associated actions that might be taken, including a discussion of strategy options. In executive session, the Board discussed all the scenarios and possible actions.

4. Vertical Alliances. The board was asked to help drive industry verticals to work with OASIS, and even consider asking them to join as Member Sections. Jointly branded workshops, such as the December OMG-OASIS Interoperability Summit conference, have great value to our members.

5. Intellectual Property Policy. After a brief discussion of the current IP policy, including directions to OASIS TCs on the distribution of their draft materials to outside bodies, it was decided to get advice from outside legal counsel on appropriate measures to take and discuss this further in a subsequent meeting.

6. Strategy Committee Update. The Strategy Committee is finalizing minutes of their recent meetings and will present a report soon.

7. TAC Update. TAC continues to discuss their action items and has no report for this board meeting.

8. ebXML Status. Our OASIS representatives to the joint planning activities continue to work with the UN/CEFACT team, and expect to report on conclusions shortly.

9. Closing. Colin closed the meeting at 1:00 pm. The next meeting will be a teleconference at 11:00-1:00 PST on 15 November, and the following meeting will be a face-to-face meeting at HP facilities in Cupertino, CA on 4 December.

Jim Hughes
Secretary