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OASIS News 31 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. ----------------------------- TC ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MEETINGS ----------------------------- OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language TC will hold its next meeting via teleconference 10 Jan 10AM (US EST) and its next F2F meeting 23-24 Jan. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/ OASIS Election and Voter Services TC will hold its next F2F meeting 10-11 Jan. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/ OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC will hold its next meeting 22-25 Jan in Menlo Park, California, hosted by Sun Microsystems. For information contact the chair Jon Bosak (jon.bosak@sun.com). http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format Technical Committee will hold its first meeting 22 Jan at 16:00 GMT (11AM US EST). Please notify the TC chair, Tony Jewtushenko (tony.jewtushenko@oracle.com) of your intent to participate at least 15 days prior to the first meeting. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/ -------------------- CONSORTIUM HEADLINES -------------------- XML Standards Converge at OASIS The trend to consolidate XML standards development strengthened in 2001 as independent industry groups and vendors alike chose to migrate their work to OASIS. Citing the need for wider adoption and international participation, the groups and companies expressed confidence that the open OASIS technical process offered the strongest potential for advancing their specifications. http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_12_19_01.shtml --------------- MEMBER BENEFITS --------------- OASIS SPONSORED STAFF MEETINGS When a company becomes an OASIS Sponsor, all its employees--no matter where they're located, what department they're in or what kind of work they do--are eligible to participate in the Consortium. To help Sponsors get maximum value out of their membership, we encourage you to schedule an OASIS Sponsor Staff Briefing, a 30-minute presentation that will educate your staff on XML interoperability, the work of OASIS and unique marketing and PR benefits for OASIS Sponsors. Via conference call or in person, members of the OASIS staff will provide briefings on: - Why XML standards are necessary - What technical work OASIS is doing now--and what's ahead - How to get involved in existing OASIS technical work - How to start new OASIS technical committees - How to move existing standards efforts to OASIS and cut down on multiple membership fees - How you can take advantage of exclusive OASIS Sponsor PR and marketing benefits If you're a Sponsor member and would like to schedule an OASIS Update, email karl.best@oasis-open.org. ----------------- NEW OASIS MEMBERS ----------------- New OASIS Contributors include RAC Motoring Services, Plumtree Software and Oss Nokalva, Incorporated. We welcome these new member companies to OASIS and look forward to their contributions. ---------------------- OASIS MEMBER DISCOUNTS ---------------------- 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 http://www.oasis-open.org/members/meetings/crane.shtml ------------------- OASIS ON THE AGENDA ------------------- 7-9 Jan, Federal Convention on Emerging Technologies-A Forum on Homeland Security, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA OASIS members will be presenting in Track 4, "Web-Based Architecture and Infrastructure" 10 Jan, Vordel Web Services Security online seminar series will examine Web services and the issues surrounding successful deployment. Hal Lockhart will present "Web services - developing a secure environment" 16-17 Jan, Next-Generation Web Services Conference San Francisco, California, USA OASIS members that are scheduled to speak are Ed Anuff of Epicentric, Bob Bickel of HP, Gerry Mooney and Steve Holbrook of IBM, Norbert Mikula of DataChannel and Howard Shao of Documentum. For a complete listing of events see: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/ -------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is available to any employee of an OASIS Sponsor or Contributor organization and all Individual members. Additional contacts from Sponsor and Contributor companies may subscribe by sending email to: members-request@lists.oasis-open.org with the word "subscribe" as the body of the message. Archives of this newsletter are posted on http://www.oasis-open.org/members/oasis_news_archive.shtml.
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