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?