Jon Bosak

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Distinguished Engineer & "Father of XML", Sun Microsystems

Jon Bosak, who organized and led the group that created XML, is now serving as the chair of the XML Coordination Group of the World Wide Web Consortium. He is also a founding member of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Process (OASIS) and chaired the committee that developed the OASIS process for the definition of industry-specific XML markup standards.

Jon has also served on the advisory board of the Electronic Business XML initiative (ebXML); on the solution provider board of RosettaNet, the leading XML-based supply-chain organization for the electronics industry; and on the board of governors of the Electronics Industry Data Exchange Association (EIDX). He currently chairs the OASIS Universal Business Language Technical Committee. Jon's articles can be found on his web page: www.ibiblio.org/bosak/