OASIS Open

StrongAuth, Inc.

Shutdown the EKMI TC.

I believe the policies at OASIS makes it difficult to put out a coherent message that benefits users in the IT industry.

In light of the following facts:

*) that charter members of the KMIP TC chose not to engage with the EKMI TC despite observing its activities for over two years;
*) that some of them were surreptitiously working on a different protocol while giving the appearance of engaging with another industry standards group;
*) that OASIS facilitated the creation of a new TC with overlapping charters rather than encourage charter members of the KMIP TC to engage in a constructive discussion with an existing OASIS TC that has a Committee Specification; and
*) that there is nothing in OASIS policy to prevent yet another splinter group from the KMIP charter members to start yet another KM-related TC within OASIS, if it serves the splinter group' purposes

it appears that OASIS' policies are more sympathetic to IT vendors than to IT customers.

In light of this, I believe that the KM industry is better served by having the EKMI vision evolve in the "do-or-die" competitive environment of the global open-source community, where technology and standards are largely driven by IT users than by vendors.