OASIS WAS Status Update

Meeting Minutes

February 2, 2005, Teleconference

  1. Roll call

Peter Michalek conducted a roll call. The following persons were present:

Peter Michalek- TC Chair (Individual, Consultant)

Kent Landfield- Prospective Member (Citadel Security)

Ivan Ristic- Member (Individual, Thinking Stone)

Roger Thornton- Prospective Member (Individual, Fortify Software)

  1. Meeting Objectives

a)Discuss the EVDL Overview document

b)EVDL examples

c)Discuss the EVDL Detect part and possible solutions for the lack of resources in this area

d)Discuss committee efficiency and performance criteria

  1. Meeting Notes

Meeting started at 8:05 AM PST.

1.

Discussion started with review of the EVDL Overview document. The missing sections were identified. It was agreed the document should be completed by Wednesday, February 9.

Action items:

  • Ivan will write section 2.5 (Protect) and section 3 (after the discussion about the content takes place on the mailing list)
  • Roger will write section 2.3 (Analysis)
  • Peter will write sections 2.4 (Detect) and 4 (Examples)

2.

EVDL examples:

  • Ivan will polish the Protect example written by Peter.

3.

The group moved to discuss the Detect element. It seems that we don’t have anyone committed to working on this part of the project. It was accepted we should keep the Detect element without a schema and to describe it in the EVDL Overview document, with the prospect of adding the content later on.

Action item:

  • Peter and Ivan to review the AVDL specification to determine if the Detect part can be replaced with AVDL.

4.

Ivan brought up the problem of committee efficiency, lack of resources, and lack of sufficient progress. The others agreed the committee is progressing very slowly. Ivan proposed to assess the status of the committee two months from now, and to shut down the committee if there is not sufficient improvement.

Roger said that it may not be necessary to wait two months and he proposed that we used the action items agreed on this call (work on the EVDL Overview document) as criteria. The others agreed.

Ivan proposed each member to explicitly state how many hours he can work on this project every week. The committee should use this information to decide whether the resources at hand are sufficient to establish future progress.

Action item:

  • Ivan to come up with measurable progress criteria, which could be used to assess the progress two months from now.

Meeting was adjourned at 9:05 AM PST.

  1. Action Items

1)EVDL Overview

  • Ivan will write section 2.5 (Protect) and section 3 (after the discussion about the content takes place on the mailing list)
  • Roger will write section 2.3 (Analysis)
  • Peter will write sections 2.4 (Detect) and 4 (Examples)

2)Examples

  • Ivan will polish the Protect example written by Peter.

3)Detect

  • Peter and Ivan to review the AVDL specification to determine if the Detect part can be replaced with AVDL.

4)Committee future

  • Ivan to come up with measurable progress criteria, which could be used to assess the progress two months from now.