OASIS News: 13 November 2006

[John Gotze <john.gotze@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS News
13 November 2006

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accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium.

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Public Review Begins for SAML Profiles and Extensions

The OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC has recently approved Metadata 
Profile for the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), SAML 
Metadata Extension for Query Requesters, and SAML Protocol Extension for 
Third-Party Requests specifications as Committee Drafts and submitted 
the package for public review. The TC has undertaken a number of work 
items to build profiles, bindings, and extensions associated with SAML. 
These are individual specifications on an OASIS Standards publication 
track that is separate from SAML V2.0. The public review ends 27 Nov.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200611/msg00005.html

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Ongoing Public Reviews

Ends 14 Nov:
 WS-SX WS-SecureConversation v1.3 and WS-Trust v1.3
 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200609/msg00008.html

 WS-TX Atomic Transaction v1.1 and WS-Coordination v1.1
 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200609/msg00009.html

 Materials Markup Language PR1
 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200609/msg00010.html

Ends 2 Dec:
 Digital Signature Services v1.0
 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200610/msg00003.html

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OASIS Adoption Forum Closing Panel Line-Up Confirmed

Moderated by Nigel Stanley, IT Security Practice Leader, Bloor Research, 
the closing panel on open source and security standards will be a major 
highlight of the third annual OASIS Adoption Forum, held on 27-29 
November 2006 in London, UK. The distinguished panel will discuss issues 
arising from the use of open vs. closed source/traditional software and 
will air their views on how both approaches address important evaluation 
criteria such as security, quality, support, TCO, in public sector 
projects. Now confirmed for the Closing Panel are: Simon Phipps, Chief 
Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems; John Wailing, Director of 
Technical Policy, Cabinet Office, UK Government; Carl Bate, VP, Chief 
Technology Officer, Capgemini UK & Ireland; and John Gøtze, XML 
Standards Specialist and Technical Writer.

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/

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Events

13-17 Nov
UBL International 2006
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.ublconference.com/

28-29 Nov
OASIS Adoption Forum
London, UK
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/

Next Year:

15-20 Apr 2007
Fourth Annual OASIS Symposium
San Diego, USA
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/

All events:
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/calendar.php

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