By July 10:

First kick-off conference call scheduled

Meeting agenda:

• clarify scope
• confirm roadmap
• do we need a common glossary?
• identify a way of tracking issues, decision & accountability
• set regular call at a time that works for everyone

By July 22

• any proposed new use cases added

By July 24:

• Milestone: Use cases signed-off by stakeholders:
• Sign on implementers of Noah's Ark
• 2 content creators providing Catalogs
• 2 Catalog consumers that provide discovery/search functionality
• 2 systems that can acquire
• 2 reading systems that can display the acquired content

• Discussion begin on scope based on use cases for v1.0 (October)

By July 31:

• Sign on implementers of Noah's Ark

By August 5:

• Milestone: Use cases that are in scope v1.0 (October) confirmed by stakeholders
• Begin work on additions & corrections to existing spec

By August 7:

• Corrections to existing catalog spec draft to bring it more in line with Atom in progress
• Additions to existing spec to bring it in line with use cases (v1.0) in progress

By August 14:

• Milestone: Corrections to the existing catalog spec draft to bring it more in line with Atom completed
• Milestone: Additions to existing spec to bring it in line with use cases (v1.0) completed
• Prototyping begins
• Milestone: Confirmation of Noah's Ark implementers

By August 21:

• Prototypes in progress

By August 28:

• Prototypes in progress
• Feedback of use cases to specs to complete v1.0 (if necessary)

By September 4:

• Prototypes in progress
• Milestone: Amendment of use cases completed (if necessary)
• Amendment to specifications begin (if necessary)

By September 11:

• Amendment to specifications in progress (if necessary)
• Prototypes in progress

By September 18:

• Milestone: Amendment to specifications completed (if necessary)
• Prototypes in progress

By September 25:

• Milestone: Prototypes completed (first round)
• Review of prototypes commenced

By October 2:

• Milestone: Final reviews/comments to implementers posted

By October 9:

• Tweaks to prototypes

By October 16:

• Milestone: Prototypes finalised

October 19-20 BookServer workshop