Introduction

Roundtable IV took place on 13-15 September, 2005, hosted by the Open Souce Applications Foundation in San Francisco, California. The event was attended by 43 representatives from seventeen Consortium members and four observers. The Roundtable event consisted of two days of Technical Committee meetings, and an all-hands plenary meeting of the membership and attendees. The first two days, a CalConnect Interoperability Event was held in parallel with the Technical Committee meetings. The Technical Committee sessions were organized sequentially, to allow all attendees who wished to be involved in the discussions of a Technical Committee the opportunity to do so.