Greetings, just a reminder that the ballot for our election closes at 5 PM PDT today. Here is the direct link to the ballot page:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/uddi-ms/ballots.php

If you carry the vote for your organization, please vote today. Thanks much.

Regards, George

Chair, OASIS UDDI Member Section Steering Committee Managing Director, UDDI Operators Council Web Services Strategy, IBM Software Group 1-408-463-4041 or 543-4041, FAX 3319 zage...@us.ibm.com

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Ian Bruce, Director of Marketing at Systinet Corporation

Ian has over 20 years experience in marketing, business development and corporate communications, most recently at CSC where he was Head of Communications at the company's European headquarters. Ian has also held senior marketing positions with CWB (acquired by Thales), and Analog Devices. Ian holds a BSc from Coventry University, England, and a PhD in Communication from SyracuseUniversity.

Ian was a member of the Software & Information Industry Association's = Web services working group and has been actively involved with the EAI Consortium's Web services and SOA group.

"I believe a registry is a critical ingredient of an effective service-oriented architecture, providing standards-based approach to advertising, discovering and reusing services. UDDI.org will play a key role in ensuring that users appreciate and understand how the registry can be effectively deployed, and the associated technical, architectural, and business process issues. Prospective users need a clear rationale for adopting UDDI, and evidence that the registry can provide business = value. Using case studies, business outreach and by actively enrolling the = support of existing users, analysts, and the media, UDDI.org is well positioned = to show this value and accelerate adoption." "This is an exciting opportunity. My goals for the Member Section would be:

adopters, contributors, journalists and analysts interested in learning about and furthering the development of UDDI

- Users of the specification - vendors, enterprise architects and senior IT management who are beginning the process of creating or deploying a = UDDI registry - Prospective adopters of the standard who are grappling with how to architect and deploy an effective SOA - Journalists & Analysts interested in understanding the role and value of UDDI and the progress, support and state-of-adoption of the standard The overall goal will be to significantly raise awareness of UDDI and effectively communicate the standard's importance and centrality for creating a SOA."

A short bio is posted at the following location:     http://uddi.org/governance/#hamer  

Jean-Luc Levesque Company Director of EdiEyes ltd in London Dircetor of EdiEyes France to President of S10M Ophtalmic Committee at AFNOR in France. ISO expert for optics business (instruments and data exchange) President of Semantic Optics Association   We are very interested by this project. We use and need it in our ophtalmic application for searching all resources we need to process a complete equipment (spectacle lens + spectacle frame + glazing + mounting). Our system is already used by 13.000 Opticians in Europa (60.000 Opticians) and all main laboratories (Essilor, Hoya, Sola, Oakley, Baush & Lomb, Vistakon, Menicon...) and main frame manufacturors (Luxottica, Charmant, ...) in Europa and main chains of opticians in France and Spain.  

Vicki currently works within SAP's Technology Standards Organization as the Director of Business Strategy. Within her role, she actively participates in the governance and marketing activities of organizations such as the Java Community Process, the Eclipse Foundation, and the Java Tools Community.  Within SAP, Vicki drives the process for evaluation and integration of Java and Web services standards into SAP's product portfolio, and directs related messaging and marketing activities as liaison to the corporate organizations of product definition and product marketing. Prior to joining SAP, Vicki worked for many years within Sun Microsystems's Java Software organization. She was a member of the team that created the formalized Java Community Process. She also worked as one of the original Java product managers managing families of APIs for extending the Java platform with media capability, and for use within the embedded/wireless domain through EmbeddedJava, Real-time Java, and EmbeddedJava tools.   "SAP is extremely committed to UDDI and looks forward to participating in marketing activities that will drive its positioning and proliferation within the Web services market."