[members] Your XML Consortia and Standards Participation

[Scott McGrath <scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS Members:

In an effort to identify overlap and opportunities for
convergence, OASIS is working to compile a list of consortia and
standards bodies to which our members belong. If you participate
in XML-based standards efforts outside of OASIS--whether through
international organizations or small vendor groups, cross-industry
bodies or specialized vertical market organizations--please let us
know.

Specifically, we'd like to use this information to:

 *invite representatives to the Interoperability Summit
(www.omg.org/interop), inter-consortia meetings aimed at
identifying common ground and coordinating development of
electronic business specifications;

*ensure that independent standards efforts are aware of the option
and benefit greater participation, less overlap and greater
convergence of continuing their development within OASIS;

* explore other avenues of consortia cooperation, including joint
or collaborative development and improved liaison relationships
between OASIS TCs and the working groups of other organizations.

As you know, many varied industry groups have migrated their work
to OASIS--with great results. In the security space, AuthXML and
S2ML combined their efforts to produce one universally accepted
standard, SAML. In Web services, independent efforts from WSUI.Org
and WSXL from IBM have joined together to advance the WSCM spec.
BTP for business transactions was begun by BEA Systems and
migrated to OASIS for wider industry participation and adoption.
XML Schema languages, TREX and RELAX combined their work into
RELAX NG at OASIS. The new OASIS Provisioning Services TC expects
to consider contributions from the XRPM Working Group, the ADpr
Initiative and developers of ITML.

We realize it is difficult for most organizations to fund
participation in all the relevant standards work that's happening.
By pursuing convergence and cooperative relationships, we hope to
provide you with the opportunity to contribute to the broadest
possible range of significant work through your membership in
OASIS.

If you are involved in other standards efforts, please let us know
which ones are important to you. If you can recommend standards
initiatives that you think would benefit by an association with
OASIS, we welcome your suggestions.


Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
Tel: +1 978.667.5115 x209




Scott McGrath
Member Services Manager

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