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Guidelines

1. The goal of The SOA Forum™ is to create a roundtable of Enterprise IT Executives and Architects who are engaged in Services Oriented Architecture.
   
2. The forum will include senior IT Executives and Enterprise Architects level from Fortune 500 companies and Government Agencies only.
   
3. The participation in the forum is voluntary and does not require any commitment from the participating members. The success of the forum will be in its ability to provide valuable information to its members through interactions with their peers.
   
4. Initial meetings of the forum will be via conference calls that will be hosted every time by a different company of the forum. Members of the forum will be free to decide on the frequency, duration and venue of the follow up meetings.
   
5. Members are invited to presentations in forum meetings. If you are interested in delivering, please contact us.
6. Members of the forum will be able to invite Vendors to Q&A type of session, in which the vendors will be requested to answer the questions that will be crafted by the forum members in advance.
   
7. To simplify the process, no NDA or Intellectual Property documents will be required; therefore members are required not t o expose enterprise confidential information or proprietary information to the forum members.
   
8. By registering to the forum, your company name will be included in the list of member companies provided in the Members section of this website. Your personal information however, will not be used or transferred in anyway without your prior written consent.
   

Things that the forum is not targeting to be:

1. Not an industry consortia
2. Not a vendors organization
3. Not a standards organization
4. Not a large organization with committees and sub-committees