OAGi is elected to International De Jure Standards MoU Management Group (MoU MG)

The Open Applications Group was elected in PARIS this week to become part of a very elite group in the standards world.  Your organization has joined the four international de jure standards organizations in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on electronic business.   The Open Applications Group will participate in implementation of the MoU as a registered international user group.  We will give more details in a separate announcement shortly.

The MoU establishes a cooperative coordination mechanism to produce mutually supportive data interchange and interoperability standards for business transactions as well as product design and manufacturing to meet industry and user needs. It aims to minimize the risk of divergent and competitive approaches to standardization and avoid duplication of efforts and confusion among end users.  For More Information on the MoU, go to their web site: http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/e-business/mou/index.html

- Our special USAF OAGi meeting in Dayton Ohio on November 13 - 14 was a smashing success.  We had a large audience and brought in attendees from over country.  Thanks to all
  who contributed to this success.  You can download presentations from this event here: http://www.openapplications.org/global/meetings.htm 

Partnerships: 

- We have signed an MoU with the Automotive Industry Action Group to cooperate on building XML Standards for the Automotive industry in North America.
- We reached an agreement with the European Automotive Industry through their Odette organization to cooperate on building XML Standards for the Automotive Industry in Europe.
- We established a close working relationship with the STEP community recently and are working towards their adoption of OAGIS BODs for use of exchanging Engineering Data with the 
  STEP world and the Enterprise.  More will be forthcoming on these developments shortly.

Recent publications related to Open Applications Group: 

There have been many articles published recently related to the work of the Open Applications Group and their constituency.  We encourage you to go visit the web site and look down the far right hand column as there are links to most of them there; www.openapplications.org.