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Subject: OASIS News: 12 Feb 2007
OASIS News 12 February 2007 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WebCGM 2.0 Becomes an OASIS Standard and W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium and OASIS jointly announced the approval of WebCGM 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation and OASIS Standard. WebCGM is a profile of the Computer Graphics Metafile, an ISO standard used to interchange two dimensional vector and mixed vector-raster graphics for technical illustration, documentation and data visualization. Advanced by the OASIS CGM Open Member Section, WebCGM is optimized for Web applications used in the defense, aviation, architecture, and transportation industries. http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-01-30.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS WS-SX TC Submits Spec for Consideration as OASIS Standard The OASIS Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) TC has submitted the WS-Trust 1.3 and WS-SecureConversation 1.3 specification set to be considered as an OASIS Standard. WS-Trust provides methods for issuing, renewing, and validating security tokens and ways to broker trust relationships. WS-SecureConversation allows security context establishment and sharing and session key derivation. On 16 February 2007, a Call for Vote on this specification set will be issued to all OASIS member organizations. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200702/msg00001.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration Opens, TAB Announces Program for OASIS Symposium The OASIS Technical Advisory Board has selected an impressive line-up of presentations for the fourth annual OASIS Symposium, to be held in San Diego, California, 15-18 April. This year, both business and technology tracks will be offered on the theme of "eBusiness and Open Standards: Understanding the Facts, Fiction, and Future." Topics include eBusiness Document Standards, Identity Management, Business Document and Content, eGov Strategies, Web Services, Leveraging SOA, and more. All OASIS members are strongly encouraged to attend, and non-members are also welcome. Save 100 USD by registering before 19 March. Exhibit and sponsorship opportunities are also available; contact symposium2007@oasis-open.org. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Five Committees Transition to Royalty Free on Limited Terms IPR Mode Members of the OASIS Customer Information Quality (CIQ), DocBook, ebXML Registry, Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI, RELAX NG, and Tax XML Technical Committees all voted to adopt the "RF on Limited Terms" IPR mode for their work. This mode requires all Obligated Parties to license their Essential Claims using Royalty Free licensing elements as described in the OASIS IPR Policy. http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UDDI XML.org Launches UDDI becomes the latest addition to the XML.org family of web sites that support communities-of-interest for OASIS Standards. UDDI XML.org provides a knowledge base of educational information, as well as a collaborative resource where readers share news, events, product listings, services, case studies, testimonials, and recommendations. Sponsors for XML.org sites including UDDI, DITA, and OpenDocument are welcome; contact peter.roden@oasis-open.org for details. http://uddi.xml.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Publishes White Paper on Election Markup Language The OASIS Election and Voter Services TC explains how EML provides a uniform, reliable way to allow systems that support the election process to interoperate. The standard has been designed for use in both public and private elections, for voter registration, balloting, e-counting and communication of results. According to TC chair, John Borras, this new white paper "will help those involved in e-elections get a clearer picture of the options they should be considering and why." http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22101/The%20Case%20for%20EML. pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Issues Trademark Policy The OASIS Board of Directors approved a modification to the trademark policy to more clearly state that OASIS welcomes references to and implementation of its specifications, while reserving the right to protect its marks against misleading uses. Corresponding adjustments to document templates will be forthcoming. http://www.oasis-open.org/who/trademark.php. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DITA XML.org Welcomes XyEnterprise as Sponsor XyEnterprise, provider of out-of-the-box XML content management and publishing solutions, has become the newest sponsor of DITA XML.org. XyEnterprise joins other DITA XML.org sponsors, Adobe, Astoria, Comtech, Innodata Isogen, PTC, and XMetal. http://dita.xml.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ongoing Public Reviews - ebXML-IIC Deployment Profile Templates, ends 7 Mar http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200701/msg00004.html - eContracts v1.0, ends 27 Mar http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200701/msg00013.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Events Co-sponsored by OASIS: 7-9 Mar Open Publish 2007 Baltimore, MD, USA http://www.open-conferences.com/baltimore/ 12-15 Mar LISA Forum Asia: China Focus Beijing, China http://www.lisa.org/events/2007beijing/?from=posting 19-21 Mar AJAXWorld Conference & Expo New York, NY, USA http://www.ajaxworldexpo.com/ 20-21 Mar Topic Maps 2007 Oslo, Norway http://www.topicmaps.com/tm2007/ 26-28 Mar Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2007 Boston, MA, USA http://www.cm-strategies.com/index.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. Volunteers to translate the newsletter into other languages are welcome; contact communications@oasis-open.org. Archives: http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_archive.php
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