Nomination acceptance

I am sending  this message to confirm my acceptance of my nomination for co-chair. As some of  you may remember, besides co-authoring with Pierangela Samarati some early  research on XML access control, I worked with Simon Blackwell from the  very beginning to start this TC as an autonomous effort within OASIS;  later, I tried to enlarge its membership to include other experienced academic  and industrial researchers. As co-chair, I would try to continue Simon's  work in keeping our focus on a shared strategy for
XACML, as well as in  planning what concretely needs to be done in order to keep our strict  March 1st deadline. As there are several crucial issues to be addressed in  the coming weeks, I fully agree with the other nominees that what the group  needs most is a strong, committed co-chair team, with a clear idea of what  we should accomplish and how we should do it. I would welcome the opportunity to  be part of such a team, and
 am anyway willing to give my full support to  the group activity.

Prof. Ernesto Damiani Dipartimento di Tecnologie  dell'Informazione Università di Milano - Polo di Crema Via Bramante 65  26013 Crema, Italia tel 0373-898240 fax  0373-898253