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Subject: OASIS News: 17 March 2011
Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. In this issue: * Nominations open for Distinguished Contributor Award * TC approves PLCS DEX R5 as Committee Specification * SAML 2.0 Kerberos Attribute Profile public review begins * OASIS presents EDXL webinar * CMIS TC presents at AIIM info360 conference * eGov MS elects Steering Committee * LegalXML holds Steering Committee Election * Lieberman, NXP, and TRUSTe become OASIS Sponsors * OASIS co-sponsors ICAIL2011 conference * Paul Knight joins staff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations open for Distinguished Contributor Award Each year, OASIS recognizes the contributions of outstanding members through the Distinguished Contributor Award program. All OASIS members are eligible; members are invited to submit nominations before the deadline of 18 Apr. Final selection will be made by staff. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201103/msg00004.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TC approves PLCS DEX R5 as Committee Specification Members of the Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) TC have approved PLCS Data Exchange Sets (DEX) as a Committee Specification. PLCS DEX RE5 provides structured data exchange and sharing capabilities to support complex engineered assets throughout their total life cycle. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201103/msg00000.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAML 2.0 Kerberos Attribute Profile public review begins This specification describes a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) attribute profile for requesting and expressing Kerberos protocol messages. This public review ends 27 Mar. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201103/msg00001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS presents EDXL webinar On 14 Apr, the Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Technical Best Practices webinar will explore how the EDXL standards work together to enhance interoperability and information sharing capabilities in the emergency management and response domains. This one-hour webinar is free; however, advance registration is required. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/325728545 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CMIS TC presents at AIIM info360 conference Ryan McVeigh of Zia and David Choy of EMC will discuss the current state of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) OASIS Standard and present an interoperability demo encompassing Alfresco, IBM, Microsoft, Nuxeo, Open Text, and Zia. The event will be held in the Microsoft Pavilion on 23 Mar at 10:00am in Washington, D.C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- eGov Member Section elects Steering Committee Harm Jan van Burg of the Netherlands Ministry of Finance, Bob Sunday of the Government of Canada, Colin Wallis of the Government of New Zealand, John Borras, and Steve Mutkoski of Microsoft have been elected to two-year terms on the OASIS eGov Steering Committee. OASIS congratulates these individuals and expresses deep appreciation to departing MS Steering Committee member, Bill Barnhill of Booz Allen Hamilton. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201103/msg00001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LegalXML holds elections for Steering Committee Elections are now underway for two seats on the LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee. LegalXML brings legal and technical experts together to create standards for the electronic exchange of legal data. All eligible Member Section participants are invited to vote before the deadline of 22 Mar. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201103/msg00002.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lieberman, NXP, and TRUSTe become OASIS Sponsors Lieberman Software provides unique solutions that fill the niche of managing local and domain security. http://www.liebsoft.com/ NXP Semiconductors provides mixed signal and standard product solutions that leverage its RF, Analog, Power Management, Interface, Security and Digital Processing expertise. http://www.nxp.com/ TRUSTe helps businesses promote online safety and trust, and guides consumers to sites that protect their online privacy. http://www.truste.com/ Members who would like to invite representatives of Lieberman, NXP, or TRUSTe to participate in specific committees should contact member-services@oasis-open.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS co-sponsors ICAIL2011 The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, which will be held 6 Jun in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, includes a special focus on aspects of contracts such as enterprise modeling, e-business rules, and procedural rules. OASIS members are encouraged to submit papers for the conference before the deadline of 20 Apr. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201103/msg00003.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Knight joins staff Paul will serve as a Document Process Analyst, working with OASIS TC editors to ensure their documents conform to consortium standards, and helping to improve the tools, templates, documentation and processes used by OASIS members. Paul can be reached at paul.knight@oasis-open.org http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201103/msg00003.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Facebook Group Page: http://facebook.com/oasis.open ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: 22 Mar LegalXML Steering Committee election closes http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201103/msg00002.html 27 Mar SAML 2.0 Kerberos Attribute Profile public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201103/msg00001.html 28 Mar Public Review of Electronic Court Filing 4.01 ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201102/msg00001.html 30-31 Mar Key Management Summit http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201102/msg00003.html 12 Apr Public Review for BIAS SOAP ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201102/msg00002.html 14 Apr OASIS presents EDXL webinar https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/325728545 18 Apr Nominations for Distinguished Contributor Award close http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201103/msg00004.html 20 Apr Paper submission deadline for ICAIL2011 conference http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201103/msg00003.html 11-13 May OASIS presents at WCO conference https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=18357& ------------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. 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