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OASIS News
3 Dec 2001

Welcome to OASIS News, a publication for the OASIS membership community
providing updates on Consortium announcements, accomplishments and
activities. OASIS News is published twice a month.


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OASIS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
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Wed, 12 Dec, 6-8 PM
Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel
Orlando, Florida

All OASIS members are strongly urged to attend this 'Year in Review' for
the Consortium, where the Board of Directors and staff will present
updates on OASIS accomplishments, financials and TC work. A reception,
sponsored by Intel, IBM and Sun Microsystems, follows the AGM. Please
email margie.pina@oasis-open.org if you are able to attend.
http://www.oasis-open.org/members/meeting_schedule.shtml


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TC ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MEETINGS
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OASIS Provisioning Services TC will hold its next meeting 10 Dec at
12PM (US CST). Contact Darran Rolls (drolls@waveset.com)
for information.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/provision/


TC MEETINGS TO BE HELD AT XML 2001, Orlando, Florida:
All times in (US ET) (*denotes change or addition)

Sunday, 9 Dec
9:00AM-5:00PM CGM Open, Europe 4

Wednesday, 12 Dec
12:00-2:00PM DocBook BoF, Asia 1
*6:30-8:00PM AGM, Asia 1
*8:00-9:00PM AGM reception, Asia 5

Thursday, 13 Dec
9:00AM-11:30PM Conformance TC, Australia 1
12:00-5:00PM CIQ TC, Australia 1
*5:30-7:00PM XML.org-Current Accomplishments & Future Improvements, open
meeting, Asia 4
7:30-9:30PM XSLT Conformance, Australia 1

Friday, 14 Dec
12:00-5:00PM Topic Published Subjects TC, Australia 1
9:30AM-12:00PM Joint meeting of Election Services TC and CIQ TC, Asia 4
1:00-3:00PM Election Services TC, Asia 4

Saturday 15 Dec
9:00AM-5:00PM TopicMaps Member Section, Sandpiper Room-Swan Hotel


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CONSORTIUM HEADLINES
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OASIS RELAX NG TC Completes Spec

OASIS released RELAX NG 1.0 as a Committee Specification for validating
XML-based languages. RELAX NG offers a complimentary alternative to the
W3C XML Schema Recommendation, providing an option for developers who
value ease-of-use and a middle ground for those adopting multiple schema
languages. In support of the new specification, the OASIS TC also
released the RELAX NG tutorial and RELAX NG DTD compatibility.
http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_12_03_01.shtml


Collaboration, Communication and Convergence Bring Industry Groups
Together for First Interoperability Summit

Major standards groups and consortia from around the world will
collaborate at the Interoperability Summit in Orlando, Florida, 6-7 Dec.
OASIS will co-host the Interoperability Summit as the first in a series
of meetings aimed at identifying common ground and coordinating
development of electronic business specifications. Registered attendees
from Asia, Europe and North America include representatives from
industry groups, ACORD, AIIM, Air Transport Association, ANSI, HR-XML,
IDEAlliance, IMS Global Learning Consortium, Interoperability
Clearinghouse, OASIS, OMG, Open Applications Group, The Open Group,
UN/CEFACT and XBRL.org. In addition, government agencies such as the
United Kingdom Office of the e-Envoy and the United States Department of
Defense, and global corporations, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, Nokia, Oracle,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Reuters, Rockwell, Sun Microsystems, and others
will contribute their perspectives to the Summit. Registration remains
open at http://www.omg.org/interop/.


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XML.org
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XML.org and its sponsors will host a networking and XML.org update
meeting on Thursday, 13 Dec from 5:30 to 7:00 PM in the
Asia 4 meeting room at XML 2001. This gathering will be an opportunity
to:
* interact with the XML.org advisory committee members, staff and
sponsors
* find out how you can get involved with XML.org as a content
contributor and volunteer
* determine how you can help facilitate collaboration by becoming a
vertical industry leader and director for an XML.org industry vertical
* learn about XML.org's accomplishments in 2001 and enhancements for
2002


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MEMBER BENEFITS
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OASIS members are encouraged to promote their ebXML products and
implementations on http://www.ebxml.org/implementations/index.htm. To
have your ebXML product featured on this page, please email your product
name, brief description including which ebXML specs are implemented and
a URL for more information to carol.geyer@oasis-open.org


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NEW OASIS MEMBERS
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OASIS is proud to announce that Thomson corporation, www.thomson.com,
Drake Certivo, www.certivo.net, Contentguard, www.contentguard.com  and
BMC Software, www.bmcsoftware.com
have joined the Consortium as sponsor members.  New OASIS Contributors
include Lionbridge Technologies, Centro Tecnico per la Rete Unitaria and
Moravia IT.  We welcome these new member companies to OASIS and look
forward to their contributions.


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OASIS MEMBER DISCOUNTS
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OASIS members are eligible for discounts on online educational
tutorials, conference registration fees and/or exhibiting fees at many
industry events including:

Crane Softwrights audio lecture series

9-14 Dec, XML 2001, Orlando, Florida, USA, $200 discount

For a complete list of member discounts:
http://www.oasis-open.org/members/member_discounts.shtml


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OASIS ON THE AGENDA
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9-14 Dec, XML 2001, Orlando Florida, USA
The following list of OASIS members will be presenting at XML 2001:

*Duane Nickull, XML Global-Implementing ebXML
*Krishna Sankar, Cisco-OASIS XML Security Standards
*Lisa Carnahan, NIST and Farrukh S. Najmi, Sun Microsystems-Debut of
OASIS ebXML Registry V2.0
*James J. Clark, OASIS RELAX NG Technical Committee
*Lisa Carnahan; Mark Skall; and Lynne Rosenthal, NIST-OASIS Conformance
and OASIS/ebXML Registry Committees
*Alastair J. Green, Choreology Ltd-Coordinating Business Processes
Between Organizations: OASIS BTP, the Transaction Protocol for XML
Services
*Christopher Ferris, Sun Microsystems-OASIS ebXML TRP
*Lynda S. VanVleet -OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Committee Procedures
and Deliverables eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
*Simon Y. Blackwell, Psoom, Inc-OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup
Language (XACML) standards
*Karl Best, OASIS Director of Technical Operations, OASIS Technical Work
Status Update
*Chaemee Kim - Understanding and Implementing ebXML Registry &
Repository

10-14 Dec, Internet World Fall 2001, NYC, NY, USA
Philippe De Smedt, chair of the OASIS ebXML Implementation,
Interoperability and Conformance Technical CommitteeTC, will speak on
the topic of ebXML Messaging in the web application services.

For a complete listing of events see: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/


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