From carson@siggraph.org Wed Apr 16 20:39:44 1997 Received: from siggraph.cgrg.ohio-state.edu (siggraph.cgrg.ohio-state.edu [128.146.18.100]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA14499 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:39:43 +0200 Received: from study (carson@siggraph.org) by siggraph.cgrg.ohio-state.edu (8.8.5/941010.52) with SMTP id OAA09622 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:39:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970416124051.007186a0@siggraph.cgrg.ohio-state.edu> X-Sender: carson@siggraph.cgrg.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:40:59 -0600 To: SC24@dkuug.dk From: Steve Carson Subject: Proposal for a JTC 1 Business Team Pilot Project on Electronic Commerce Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I want to call your attention to the document referenced in the title. It has been circulated to JTC 1 National Bodies for a 60-day letter ballot. I will shortly circulate the full text on this reflector since it is quite small. The problem I see is that JTC1 level "managers" are not competent to determine appropriate requirements nor to appropriately scope the work. It also seems to me that there are many areas within our traditional scope (graphics and multimedia, presentation, etc.) that are of major importance to electronic commerce. One very obvious one is the use of VRML in web based services such as shopping, access to product specifications, etc. This could be a major opportunity for us in SC24 to help out. The question I pose to SC24 for discussion on this reflector is do we want to make a major push to help in this area. If so, SC24-level NBs need to aggressively work with their national JTC1-level counterparts to let them know of our interest and we need to begin to discuss this and identify both new work and existing specifications that we might try and bring in. Steve Carson Chair, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC24 Computer Graphics and Image Processing --------------------------------------------------------- Steve Carson phone: +1-505-521-7399 GSC Associates Inc. fax: +1-505-521-9321 5272 Redman Road e-mail: carson@siggraph.org Las Cruces, NM 88011 USA ---------------------------------------------------------