Dear OASIS members, I've seen with surprise the proposal for a new TC in OASIS, on BOPS. After reading serveral times the description of the proposed TC, I must confess that I do not have a clear idea of what the new TC is proposing as a protocol. Is it a communication protocol? An authentication protocol? A cryptographic protocol? etc. It is also important to see why this work has to be covered by a new TC, instead of using either the OASIS TC on Biometrics, or even the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC37. If this work is intended to create a biometric authentication protocol in client-server application, then the work of the experts proposing the creation of the new TC, may benefit from joining any of both above mentioned standardization bodies. In fact, that work could be a layer over BIAS (formerly defined by OASIS and currently adopted by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC37 in the 30108 standard). The creation of a new standardization body will disagregate the standardization effort, and that will be really bad for the industry. Therefore I'd like to discourage the proposers about the creation of such new TC, and invite them to join either OASIS Biometrics TC or ISO/IEC JTC1/SC37. Best regards. -- =================================================== Dr. Raul Sanchez-Reillo Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Dpt. Tecnologia Electronica Avda. Universidad, 30 (Office 1.2.F.04) E-28911 Leganes (Madrid) - SPAIN Tlf: +34 91 624 8808 Movil: +34 609 766 222 Fax: +34 91 624 9430 ====================================================