The XBRL Nominations mittee seeks applicants to the newly approved XBRL International Best Practices Board (BPB).  The BPB will nsist of seven members appointed by the XBRL International Steering mittee. Ideally each member will bring practical experience in XBRL implementation and fill a specific mpetency-role to ensure appropriate and balanced perspective, and a blend of skills.  The charter for this board can be found at /BPB/BPB-Charter-2008-03-03-Approved.htm

The targeted mpetency mix of BPB members currently sought is:

·Two Members: Program management – with practical experience in XBRL program management, and a focus on the design of feature sets based on functional requirements arising from the gathering, analyzing and prioritizing of requirements from business to functionality. petencies include the ability to drive key trade off decisions, to illustrate the best sequencing of features over time from a design perspective that they also meet requirements, and to evaluate the resource requirements for development and the delivery capacity of a distributed, matrix team.

·Two Members: Regulatory reporting management experts - with direct experience in XBRL regulatory reporting, and a focus on the design and/or operation of end-to-end business processes associated with regulatory reporting. petencies and experiences in designing and managing systems from the business owner perspective and defining business architecture. Must have an understanding of the process of implementing new technology in ernment and large anizations, working closely with IT and business teams.

·One Member: Financial Analysis expert - with broad experience in using XBRL in financial analysis having a focus on the processes and methods used to llect and align data from disparate anizations, especially in international settings.

·Two Members: Software – with demonstrated experience in implementing XBRL enabled software solutions with a focus on XML and specifically XBRL technology. petencies and experiences in designing and developing such software.

All members must demonstrate a rerd of working in international settings with clear mpetencies in teaming, judgment, negotiation, and strategic planning.

Applicants are asked to submit a CV including a ver letter stating how they align with the targeted mpetencies stated above, by 2 May 2008 to bpb@xbrl.. 

UPDATE – May, 2008

The XII International Steering mittee approved a motion to extend the deadline for applications to the Best Practices Board to May 9th, 2008. While it is very pleased by the number and quality of the applications received by the deadline the interest expressed in the Best Practice Board leading up to the Eindhoven nference has enuraged a brief extension of the deadline.