People often ask me what's happening these days at the Jericho Forum. It's been around for some years, but the computer press coverage has been relatively light lately. Well I'm pleased to report that it's very much alive and well, and it's making steady progress.
The first phase of the Jericho Forum's long range programme was to raise awareness and define the problem space for de-perimeterisation. That's been achieved through the series of international conferences and numerous position papers that have been published. The current phase is the development of the solution space. That's a much harder task, but good progress has been made in developing a common architecture to support collaborative working. This phase is targeted to be complete by the end of January.
There's a lot of current activity by members to fill in the elements of the collaboration oriented architecture. It's an important stage. In my view, none of it will be earth-shattering or great. But that's not the point. The main achievement is that several dozen important organisations will have agreed it. And that's significant. Collaboration is about consensus, not perfection.
And architecture is, of course, a means to an end, not an end in itself. The next phase will be focused more on implementation. That's when it will get interesting.
