FpML-FXWG-Legacy Fwd: Re: [fpml-fx] No conference call this week

["Danielle Cauthen" <dcauthen@xxxxxxxx>]

--- In fpml-fx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tony.spraggs@... wrote:


Rick,

I wish you a happy holiday too, but tinged with a little sadness, 
since this was to be the last conference call that I could attend on 
behalf of Reuters in London.  I have taken Voluntary Redundancy and 
will be leaving Reuters at the end of the month.

I realise that I have not been able to contribute much to the 
proceedings over the past few months but I have been watching from 
the wings with great interest.  The work that you have managed to 
achieve so far is a credit to you all, and I hope that FpML will 
become the industry wide standard that it deserves to be.  As you 
all know the industry is crying out for STP and if this standard 
comes through it will make all our lives a lot more straightforward, 
there isn't enough resource anymore to develop bespoke protocols.  
Reuters was very lucky when developing the TOF because we had a 
fantastically talented group of developers who integrated it into 
the bespoke Marketfeed protocol and has since become an industry 
wide standard.

So, I wish you all a fond farewell, happy in the knowledge that you 
have such expertise as Ned and Gavin in your crew, and if anyone is 
in need of a technical transactions specialist please drop me a line 
on tony.spraggs@...

Best Regards
Tony





                                                                     
                                                               
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It has been a quiet week on the FpML front.  Justin and I have a few 
documentation tasks remaining, and we have tidied up a couple of 
items this week (including folding in the coding schemes into the 
FpML Version 3.0 alpha document, as I think you probably saw earlier 
this week via an email from Steven Lord).  We will continue pressing 
forward over the next couple of weeks on the documentation front, 
but it doesn't seem necessary to have a conference call tomorrow.


We will also cancel the conference call on Thursday Dec. 27, since 
many of you will likely be on holiday.


Therefore, the next conference call is scheduled for next year 
(which sounds like a long way off, but is actually only a couple 
weeks away).  We will have the call on Thurs. January 3, 2002, at 
the standard time.


In the meantime, I would like to take the opportunity to thank each 
of you for participating in our working group over the course of 
2001.  Economic times are a bit more challenging than they were at 
the beginning of the year, and each of us probably has more 
responsibilities and tasks associated with our real jobs than we did 
when we first signed up for this work.  Nevertheless, many of you 
have contributed substantially to the development of the 
specification, and your work is greatly appreciated.  We're on the 
cusp of creating an excellent specification for our industry, and I 
believe that there is a high probability that the specification will 
be adopted by many financial institutions and vendors in our 
industry in the years to come.  For me personally, I've never run an 
industry-wide group like this before, and I certainly have a much 
greater appreciation for the amount of work involved having done 
this.  I do thank you for your patience as I contin


With that, Happy Holidays, and here's to a healthy and prosperous 
2002.


Regards,
Rick
                                                    
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