Your "Building Automation" columnist has been asked to moderate a "panel discussion on XML related HVAC industry initiatives and views." The full symposium program and details can be found online at www.xml-symposium.com. The panel is going to deal with the "status and position" of LonMark®, BACnet®, and oBIX with respect to XML.
If you are wondering what this alphabetic soup could possibly mean let me try to explain. Our industry runs on annoying acronyms, and the movers and shakers of our industry have seen fit to bestow on us with yet two more. Please do not glaze over just yet, as both are simple and powerful in concept and we have some very capable folks working out the complex details.