Application to have oBIX proceed to becoming an OASIS standard

Committee Members:

 

Now that oBIX is an OASIS Committee
Standard our next step is to proceed for vote as an OASIS standard.  To do this
we are required to do a submission, have it reviewed by staff, and get votes
from 15% of OASIS members.  There are a number of requirements involved to get
to this step including passing a public review which we have completed.  The
one open issue we have is the completion of two additional “certifications”.
 These are statements that you have looked at the protocol, not that you have
used it in a product.  Applications are only accepted until the 15th
of the month.  We got in for the December cycle – with the understanding
that we would get the remaining certifications in the next few days.  

 

Much thanks to OASIS staff for
working with us on this.  The success of this project now rests on committee
members submitting the certifications and on our work to get general OASIS
support for the project.

 

Our application is attached below.

 

On a sad note,  we are loosing our
technical committee chair, Aaron Hanson, as he move to a new career.  Many
thanks to Aaron for his outstanding work and perseverance over the last three
years.  It is the hard work that has been done by Aaron and the other technical
committee members that has gotten us to this point.

 

 

Paul Ehrlich

Co-Chair OASIS oBIX committee

 

 

 

 

As Co-Chair of the oBIX (Open
Building Information Exchange) TC I am submitting the following items to the TC

Administrator:

 

a) Links to the approved Committee
Specification in the TC's document repository

 

The approved Committee Specification
can be found at View Document Details:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/obix/document.php?document_id=21461

 

Download Document:  

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/obix/download.php/21461/obix-1.0-cs-01.doc

 

(b) The editable version of all
files that are part of the Committee Specification

 

   See links above.

 

(c) Certification by the TC that all
schema and XML instances included in the specification, whether by inclusion or
reference, including fragments of such, are well formed, and that all
expressions are valid

 

The schemas and instances have been
extensively tested.    It is available for download at Source Forge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/obix

 

(d) A clear English-language summary
of the specification

 

   See

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/obix/documents.php

 

(e) A statement regarding the
relationship of this specification to similar work of other OASIS TCs or other
standards developing organizations

 

   oBIX version 1.0 is a new
document..

 

(f) Certification by at least three
OASIS member organizations that they are successfully using the specification

 

   The following OASIS member
organizations have certified to me

   that they are successfully using
oBIX:

 

Tridium

Others (TBD)

    

 

   Messages to this effect are archived
at

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/obix/messages.php

 

(g) The beginning and ending dates
of the public review(s), a pointer to the announcement of the public review(s),
and a pointer to an account of each of the comments/issues raised during the
public review period(s), along with its resolution

 

oBIX version 1.0 went out for public
review on 14 July 2006 and closed on 12 September 2006.

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/obix/email/archives/200607/msg00005.html  

 

 

Comment dispositions: No substantive
comments were received during the review period.  Two comments where received
and the changes where editorial only. Links to the change log are in the
archived e-mail link below.

 

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/obix/email/archives/200611/msg00001.html

 

  

(h) An account of and results of the
voting to approve the specification as a Committee Specification, including the
date of the ballot and a pointer to the ballot

 

Voting to approve oBIX Version 1.0
as an OASIS Committee Specification Began 30 November 2006 and ended 6
December  2006.  All but one committee member voted to approve the standard. 
One did not vote prior to the ballot closing. d The ballot can be found at:

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/obix/ballot.php?id=1161

 

(i) An account of or pointer to
votes and comments received in any earlier attempts to standardize substantially
the same specification, together with the originating TC's response to each
comment

 

No prior attempts have been made to
standardize oBIX 1.0.

 

(j) A pointer to the publicly
visible comments archive for the originating TC

 

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/obix/

 

(k) A pointer to any minority
reports submitted by one or more Members who did not vote in favor of approving
the Committee Specification, which report may include statements regarding why
the member voted against the specification or that the member believes that
Substantive Changes were made which have not gone through public review; or
certification by the Chair that no minority reports exist

 

   No negative votes were received,
and no minority reports were

   submitted.

 

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Paul Ehrlich

President,

Building Intelligence Group LLC

Co-Chair, OASIS oBIX Technical
Committee 

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Paul Ehrlich, PE

President

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