January 19, 2005 The OASIS TAB recommends that this set of questions be used as the basis (as a minimum subset) of each Technical Committee's published Frequently Asked Questions list: 1. What is the rationale behind this standardization effort? What is the motivation of the sponsors/authors? 2. What is the scope of this effort? What is explicitly out-of-scope, and why? 3. Are there existing comparable or overlapping standards, or comparable standardization efforts currently under way (inside or outside OASIS)? How does the work of this technical committee relate to these? What distinguishes this TC from similar work? How do the differences add value? 4. Is the product of this technical committee intended to be used in conjunction with other standards or complementary technologies? What are these? How does this work relate to these (is the usage of these complements mandatory? optional? restricted or profiled?) 5. Can you give some example of concrete applications that will benefit from standardizing the specifications from this TC? 6. Is it anticipated that TC deliverables will be broadly used, deployed, and/or implemented? Or are the deliverables intended for a narrow audience, possibly including only the TC membership? 7. Do you see external factors that should help a broad acceptance and deployment of the specifications from this TC? And factors that may potentially hinder a broad acceptance and deployment? 8. Do you know of companies or industry verticals that have already expressed interest in using the specification(s) produced by the TC in their products or services? 9. Regarding the adoption of this specification(s) by a vendor for its products: is this a decision that vendor companies can make individually, or are the interoperability aspects important enough to require industry-wide, coordinated adoption ? 10. Have the authors and their companies considered further ways to promote the produced specification(s) after completion (PR, marketing, campaigns, industry consortia....) 11. What are the security implications, if any, of this effort?