Dear Member,
Please review the following material.
W3C Technical Symposium: A Comparison of DCOM and CORBA
Main URL: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/OOP/Plan/comcorba
Jim Miller, Dan Connolly
$Date: 1996/09/26 20:15:29 $
Proposed one day event between October 28 and November 22
The W3C staff has been studying and tracking the area of
[1]distributed objects and mobile code since the formation of the
Consortium. Recently, we have been asked once again to consider how
the Web technologies (in particular HTTP) and object-oriented
distributed systems can share technology. While we are not yet
prepared to propose the allocation of major resources to this area,
our interest remains high. As part of our own technical education, we
feel it is important that the W3C staff move from a general
understanding of the field to a detailed knowledge of the technical
specifications for two of the important technologies: Microsoft's
[2]DCOM and OMG's [3]CORBA.
Toward this end, we have asked an expert in each of these technologies
to come to our MIT site and spend an evening and a full day doing a
very detailed technical comparison. This will not be an overview, and
it will not be about deployment, marketing, or intellectual property
rights. It will be strictly about the technical details of the two
systems and how they can be brought to bear on the issues facing the
web.
Since we expect that many member companies are also interested in this
information, we would like to invite appropriate employees of the
member companies to join us in this symposium. W3C will provide a
location (probably on the MIT campus) and a moderator whose job will
be to be certain that the event remains concentrated on the technical
comparison of the systems. Our plan is to run the symposium roughly as
follows:
5pm
arrival of all guests
6pm
reception with technical experts
7:30pm
dinner for all
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8:00am
Continental breakfast
8:30am
First technical session (30 minutes for each speaker, 45
minutes of questions)
10:15am
Break
10:30am
Second technical session (same format)
12:15pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Third technical session (same format)
3:15pm
Break
3:30pm
Break-out 1 (half of audience Q&A with each speaker)
4:15pm
Break
4:30pm
Break-out 2 (swap speakers)
5:15pm
End of formal sessions
6:00pm
Reception with speakers
7:30pm
Dinner for all
The dates, names of speakers, and the moderator will be announced
shortly.
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Addendum for the advisory committee members
In order to help us schedule this symposium, we would appreciate the
following information from you _before_ _Friday, October 4_ by email
to [4]<oop-symposium@w3.org>. The earlier you respond the better. If
we receive enough early responses we will be able to hold the
symposium on the earliest dates (the week of October 28).
Please help us estimate attendance by stating the number of people you
expect would attend from your company if the symposium were held
during the week of:
* October 28 - November 1
* November 4 - 8
* November 18 - 22
If there is enough interest, the symposium could be repeated, for
example in Europe. If you have a location preference for the future
event, please let us know.
Your response will not be considered a formal registration for the
symposium, but will help us determine the date and size of the event.
At the current time, we plan to offer this symposium _only_ to W3C
member company employees and there will be no charge for the event.
If you have opinions on the following issues, your feedback to
[5]<oop-symposium@w3.org> is welcome.
1. Do you feel this event is appropriate for the W3C? Why or why not?
2. Do you feel that there should be a charge for this event to help
recover costs?
3. Should we allow attendance by people who do not work for W3C
companies? If so, should we charge them differently from what we
charge W3C members?
4. Should we limit attendance, either in total (other than for space
considerations) or per company? If so, what limits do you suggest?
5. What days are absolutely impossible for your members to attend?
6. If the event is successful, should it be repeated? Should it be
videotaped and redistributed (at cost) to member companies? Would
your answer be the same if W3C were required to pay royalties to
the experts on a per-copy basis (and what would be a reasonable
charge in that case)?
References
1. <http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/OOP/
2. <http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/OOP/#DCOM
3. <http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/OOP/#CORBA
4. <oop-symposium@w3.org[1]">mailto:oop-symposium@w3.org
5. < oop-symposium@w3.org[2] ">mailto: oop-symposium@w3.org W3C
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