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Subject: Call For Presentations: OASIS Symposium


The OASIS Symposium on Reliable Infrastructures for XML
April 26th and 27th, 2004 in New Orleans, Louisiana

Call for Presentations

OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information 
Standards, invites you to submit a proposal for a presentation, panel 
discussion or tutorial for the OASIS Symposium on Reliable 
Infrastructures for XML. The goals of the symposium are to:

* Provide a forum for OASIS Technical Committee members to exchange 
ideas and present results of ongoing work, works-in-progress, etc.;
* Identify areas where coordination between standards efforts is needed 
to promote interoperability;
* Identify unaddressed topics where standards development is needed;
* Enable outside experts to present issues / opportunities to OASIS members.

The symposium will be followed by two days available to OASIS Technical 
Committees, Joint Committees and Member Sections for face-to-face 
working sessions. The OASIS Annual General Meeting will also be held in 
conjunction with the symposium.


Overview

Many different (and partially interchangeable) technologies are proposed 
or available to increase the reliability of XML-based messaging and 
networking infrastructure.  These include technologies applied:

* At the transport layer (e.g. reliable messaging specifications);
* At the application layer (e.g. transaction protocols);
* At intermediate levels (e.g. routing, point-to-point compared to 
end-to-end);
* By using Message-Oriented Middleware as a carrier for XML messages.

We define "reliable" to mean that implementing one or more of these 
technologies in an infrastructure removes some of the burden of ensuring 
application integrity from software programmers and architects.

The OASIS Symposium is focused on exploring the current state of these 
technologies and exploring areas where open standards are needed.


Instructions

The symposium program committee invites you to submit a proposal for a 
presentation, panel discussion or tutorial that addresses technologies 
and standards for reliable XML infrastructures.

Presentations should be 30 minutes long including question and answer. 
Sessions will consist of related presentations, ending with a 
question-and-answer session directed to the presenters.

Panel sessions should be 60 minutes long. Proposals for panels should 
include the topic, 3-to-4 potential panelists (name and/or role) and 
proposed format (e.g. Q&A, short presentations).

Tutorials should be 1/2 day sessions.  Tutorial proposals should state 
intended audience and learning objectives.

Proposals should address topics in reliability as applied to XML-based 
communications at the technology and implementation levels, ideally 
driven by usage scenarios. Special consideration will be given to 
proposals that:

* Compare and contrast multiple related technologies (clear comparisons 
of published and forthcoming XML transaction protocols) with a view 
toward guidance for application architects;
* Support and consider decisions about choice of appropriate 
technologies (e.g. use of reliable messaging and simpler protocols 
rather than transactional termination protocols);
* Place OASIS technologies in a broader context of competing or 
complementary specifications (e.g. relating OASIS work to the variety of 
published reliable messaging specifications);
* Consider alternative approaches to transaction management (e.g. local 
rollback versus compensation-based protocols);
* Compare reliability techniques for environmental models containing 
benign threats versus malign threats;
* Consider techniques for ensuring accountability of origin and receipt;
* Discuss the impact of digital signatures and encryption on reliability 
techniques.

OASIS will publish proceedings of the symposium. Authors should arrange 
for any necessary releases for publication prior to submission of their 
proposal.

To submit a proposal, please send the following information by email to 
symposium@oasis-open.org:

* The full contact details (name, affiliation, email, phone, postal 
address) of one presenter who will act as the primary contact for the 
proposal or panel discussion;
* The full list of authors;
* A 1-page abstract outlining the subject and key points of your 
proposal, panel discussion or tutorial.

All submissions will be acknowledged.


Important dates

Symposium                   26th and 27th April 2004
Location                    New Orleans
Proposals Due               9 February 2004
Notification to submitters  15 March 2004
Materials Due               12 April 2004


Program Committee

The Program Committee is the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB):

* Karl Best, OASIS
* Derek Coleman, HP
* William Cox, BEA
* Chet Ensign, LexisNexis
* Chris Ferris, IBM
* Eduardo Gutentag, Sun
* Jackson He, Intel
* Tim Moses, Entrust
* Krishna Sankar, Cisco
* Pete Wenzel, SeeBeyond

For further information, send email to symposium@oasis-open.org.




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