Invitation to Attend the
Rescheduled Sixth Plenary Meeting of NCITS V2 -
Information Technology Access Interfaces

NCITS (the National Committee for Information Technology Standards) Technical Committee V2 - Information Technology Access Interfaces (http://www.ncits.org/tc_home/v2.htm) invites any interested party to participate in its rescheduled sixth plenary meeting.  Please register for this meeting at http://www.nist.gov/ncits/.

The rescheduled sixth plenary meeting of NCITS/V2 will be convened by Mr. Bill LaPlant (blaplant@Census.GOV) in Redmond, WA, on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 27 and 28, 2001, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  (PT).  The 2 day meeting will be hosted by Microsoft Corporation.  The details of the meeting location will be announced as soon as they are available.

The first project of the technical committee will be to develop standards for an Alternative Interface Access Protocol (AIAP).  This communication protocol would complement and build on industry activity in home networking, wireless networking, and metadata registries for discovery and interoperation of intelligent devices.  The aim is to make it easy to fulfill the alternate interface connection needs of people with disabilities that is called for in recent government regulations. The Alternative Interface Access Protocol and related standards will ensure IT products are more accommodating of the needs and preferences of the consumer by allowing for alternative interfaces.  While addressing the special needs of people with disabilities, the option to change interfaces will have a broader market application.

For more information on the NCITS/V2 committee, please visit our Website at http://www.ncits.org/tc_home/v2.htm.  For information on membership in NCITS/V2, contact INFO-V2@NIST.GOV.  For information on NCITS membership, contact Kate McMillan (phone: 202-626-5742 or email: kmcmillan@itic.org).

For information about this meeting, the venue, and to register see the meeting Website at: http://www.nist.gov/ncits/. If you have special needs (such as an accommodation for a disability) please inform us before November 12 to allow time to make appropriate arrangements.  Contact information for special needs will be announced as soon as it is available.

Requests to participate by teleconference will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Contact INFO-V2@NIST.GOV by November 12, 2001, for information on teleconference availability.

For the convenience of those attending NCITS/V2, this meeting is taking place near, and before the Fifth UPnP Forum Summit, hosted by Microsoft Corporation, in redmond, WA on November 29 and 30, 2001.  More information on the UPnP Forum Summit will be announced as soon as it becomes available.

Please make sure you register for both these meetings, separately, (see http://www.nist.gov/ncits/ to register for V2.

Attached is a draft agenda for the meeting (Ref: V2/01-0023). Suggestions for additions and changes are welcome.  Contact INFO-V2@NIST.GOV.

V2 members are reminded to check the V2 issues List (Ref V2/01-SD-04) and provide comments.

Please forward this message to appropriate email lists.

Bill LaPlant
Chair, NCITS/V2,
IT Access Interfaces Technical Committee
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