OASIS Open: Committees

Determine the future course of the EKMI TC

What direction should the Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure Technical Committee take, in light of the recently released charter of the proposed Key Management Interoperability Protocol Technical Committee?

[ ]	Merge with the KMIP TC when it is formed.
[ ]	Continue independent of the KMIP TC without changing anything.
[ ]	Shutdown the EKMI TC.
[ ]	Other:

Opening:		Tuesday, 24 February 2009 @ 02:00 pm EST
Closing:		Tuesday, 10 March 2009 @ 02:00 pm EDT
Group:		OASIS Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) TC

Ballot has closed.

Voting Details

Voting Summary

Options with highest number of votes are bold

Option	# Votes	% of Total
Merge with the KMIP TC when it is formed.	1	10%
Continue independent of the KMIP TC without changing anything.	6	60%
Shutdown the EKMI TC.	3	30%
Other	0	0%

Eligible members who have voted:	10 of 18	56%
Eligible members who have abstained:	0 of 18	0%
Eligible members who have not voted:	8 of 18	44%

Voting Details

Voter	Company	Vote	Reference Document and/or Comment
Ezer Farhi	ARX	--
Tim Bruce	CA	Continue independent of the KMIP TC without cha...	I would not assume anything about the work or outcome of the KMIP TC, and therefore it would not serve those who have worked so hard on the EKMI TC, OASIS, or the industry to see the EKMI TC discontin
June Leung	FundServ Inc.	--
Allen Schaaf	Individual	--
Shaheen N Abdul Jabbar	Individual	--
Marc Massar	Individual	Continue independent of the KMIP TC without cha...
Shahid Sharif	Individual	Continue independent of the KMIP TC without cha...	We should contiue with our work as no one knows if KMIP will ever take off even though it has pretty heavy weights behind it. Time will tell.
Benjamin Tomhave	Individual	Continue independent of the KMIP TC without cha...	We should also engage KMIP, perhaps even through a formal sub-committee. If they're only interested in a key management protocol, then there may be an opportunity to collaborate on the other work we'v
Stefan Drees	Individual	Merge with the KMIP TC when it is formed.
Ken Adler	Individual	Shutdown the EKMI TC.	KMIP TC's lack of engagement with EKMI suggests that a merge is not likely to be entertained seriously by KMIP.
Davi Ottenheimer	Individual	Shutdown the EKMI TC.	OASIS has taken the position it serves no purpose but to be a fee-based platform for competition with no interest in trying to avoid discord and waste among members. Yet by the same token competitors
Harry Haury	NuParadigm Government Systems, Inc.	--
Upendra Mardikar	PayPal Inc.	--
Tomas Gustavsson	PrimeKey Solutions AB	Continue independent of the KMIP TC without cha...	Even though KMIP have better corporate backing I think EKMI have a head start and is more suitable for the enterprise key management, while KMIP might be suitable for storage. Therefore I think it's b
Anil Saldhana	Red Hat	Continue independent of the KMIP TC without cha...	EKMI can continue with its charter/work and collaborate with KMIP in any manner possible when opportunities/needs arise.
Arshad Noor	StrongAuth, Inc.	Shutdown the EKMI TC.	I believe the policies at OASIS makes it difficult to put out a coherent message that benefits users in the IT industry. In light of the following facts: *) that charter members of the KMIP TC
Sandi Roddy	US Department of Defense (DoD)	--
Eric Lengvenis	Wells Fargo	--