CMIS Makes It as Official OASIS Standard

OASIS requires a minimum of 15% votes to ratify a spec as an official standard — that amount of votes for CMIS v 1.0 has been reached yesterday. Unless something earth-shattering happens, or people wake up in the next few days leading up to April 30 and decide to vote against, we can safely declare CMIS as the newest OASIS standard.

We chatted with some of the Web CMS and Enterprise CMS vendors and contributors to the standard to get their commentary on the latest development.

Questions We Asked

We were looking for initial reactions right after the ballot passed the threshold of 15% of all votes for OASIS ratification, which normally puts a proposal one tiny step away from being recognized by OASIS as an official standard.

Data from Monday afternoon ET, April 26, 2010

This was a quick exercise, as we tried to get the earliest comments from some of the content management vendors that have been heavily involved in CMIS from day one. You will notice that EMC, Open Text, Microsoft and others haven’t shared their reactions with us yet. Don’t see your company in the mix? Head right over to comments to submit your point of view.

So, onto the questions we posed:

• Your reaction to CMIS becoming the official standard?
• Is the vote count (15%) too low?
• What’s next for CMIS?
• What are your company’s plans for CMIS?
• How do you see CMIS evolve with other standards like the JSRs in the mix?

And this is what we have heard back so far from some of the contributors to the standard.

Alfresco

John Newton, CTO:

It's very rare that any standard gets 100%. OASIS covers so many interests that it actually takes time for any standard to get 15% of a vote. We are not done with voting and could still get more. But we made it!

Next step is for OASIS to recognize the vote and for the vote to actually close. Until Friday, people can still change their mind. It won't be long after this vote. But I have still been amazed by some of the bureaucracy required for standards.

We have been waiting for nearly the entire life of Alfresco for this standard and now that it is here, it's fantastic! Since the spec now will not change, we already have CMIS 1.0 out with our 3.3 Community release that just came out. We intend to develop an ecosystem of applications and partners with the new standard. Open source generally does very well with standards.

Day Software

David Nuescheler, CTO:

Well, the 15% seems to be a minimum at OASIS. I think it would have been a disappointment of epic proportions if CMIS wouldn't have passed that…

We are definitely thrilled to start our work on CMIS 1.1.

As for JCR and CMIS, there is a well-documented history of the two being complementary. So, it is not either or, but both of them… JCR is an API spec, CMIS is protocol spec.

Our contributions to Apache Chemistry as the mentor and one of the initial contributors and project members are continuously increasing, as we start using CMIS in our commercial product offering. CRX offers both. CMIS as a back end integration mechanism with legacy document management repositories, but also a protocol to expose all JCR content.

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OASIS requires a minimum of 15% votes to ratify a spec as an official standard -- that amount of votes for CMIS v 1.0 has been reached yesterday. Unless something earth-shattering happens, or people wake up in the next few days leading up to April 30 and decide to vote against, we can safely declare CMIS as the newest OASIS standard.

We chatted with some of the Web CMS and Enterprise CMS vendors and contributors to the standard to get their commentary on the latest development.