[OASIS members] OASIS News-06 January 2003

[dee schur <dee.schur@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS News
06 January 2003

Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments
and activities for the XML interoperability consortium.

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XACML Review Period Begins for OASIS Open Standard Vote

The eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Committee
Specification 1.0 has been submitted for consideration as an OASIS Open
Standard. Voting representatives from each OASIS member organization
should review the specification before 15 January. Ballots will be cast
16-31 January.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200212/msg00009.html

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Mark Your Calendars for the OASIS Forum and AGM, 4 March!

Make plans now to attend the OASIS Annual General Members
Meeting/Reception and the 'OASIS Forum on the Direction of Web Services'
on Tuesday, 4
March at XML/Web Services One Conference in Santa Clara, California.
OASIS will host a full day of technical sessions followed by a keynote
presentation from Patrick Gannon. The day will conclude with a full year
review of OASIS growth with an eye towards the future, followed by a
members reception.

http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_01_06_03.shtml

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GeoLang Drafts Published Subject Set for Languages

The OASIS Topic Maps GeoLang TC posted a draft version of Published
Subjects for Languages in ISO 639. The document is intended to be used
to identify languages by URI.

http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/639/

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OASIS TCs Set First Meetings

OASIS XRI TC will teleconference on 9 January.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri/

OASIS PKI TC will teleconference on 10 January.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/pki/

OASIS Translation Web Services TC will teleconference on 16 January.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/trans-ws/


Contact TC chairs for additional information.

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New OASIS Contributors include Localisation Research Centre at the
University of Limerick, Korea Institute for Electronic Commerce, Ship
Analytics and Sungard Availability Services.

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OASIS Team Talks

20-23 Jan--Karl Best will present an OASIS Standards Update at Open
Forum 2003 on Metadata Registries, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

21-23 Jan--Patrick Gannon will speak at Electronic Business Days 2003,
Paris, France.

27-30 Jan--George Zagelow, IBM and chair of the OASIS UDDI Member
Section, will speak at COMNET Conference & Expo, Washington, DC.

28-29 Jan--Patrick Gannon will present "SyncML Supporting Web Services"
at Sync Congress, London, UK.


For more information on Events, see http://www.oasis-open.org/events/.
Details on OASIS member discounts are provided at
http://www.oasis-open.org/members/member_discounts.shtml


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