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Subject: OASIS News - 16 December 2003
OASIS News 16 December 2003 Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium. --------------------------------------------------------------------- XML 2003 Attendees Applaud OASIS Interop Demos Companies, users, and government agencies from around the world collaborated on four separate interoperability demonstrations of OASIS Standards and specifications at the XML 2003 conference in Philadelphia last week. In scenarios as varied as epidemic management, weather portal aggregation, supply chain operations, and messaging, the practical usage of ebXML, UBL, WS-Reliability, and XACML were shown. Adobe, BEA, Citrix, Cyclone Commerce, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Korean National Computerization Agency (NCA), NEC, US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Vignette, and other OASIS members took part in the demonstrations. http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_12_10_03.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- News Standards Summit More than 80 experts on news metadata standards, commercial news providers, users, and aggregators attended last week's News Standards Summit co-sponsored by OASIS, IDEAlliance, IFRA, IPTC, and NAA. Participants analyzed the current state and future expectations for news and publishing XML efforts from both the content and processing model perspectives. Those interested in the formation of an OASIS Technical Committee to develop a reference implementation incorporating existing news standards should contact scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------- World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Advocates Standards Representing OASIS at WSIS in Geneva last week, Patrick Gannon joined more than 11,000 delegates from 176 countries, meeting with heads of state, governmental ministers, technology providers, and executives of ISO, ITU, and UNECE. Attendees adopted a WSIS Declaration of Principles advocating the use of standards: Standardization is one of the essential building blocks of the Information Society. There should be particular emphasis on the development and adoption of international standards. The development and use of open, interoperable, non-discriminatory and demand-driven standards that take into account needs of users and consumers is a basic element for the development and greater diffusion of ICTs and more affordable access to them, particularly in developing countries. International standards aim to create an environment where consumers can access services worldwide regardless of underlying technology. http://www.itu.int/wsis/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Register for OASIS PR Group Before Dec 31 All OASIS Sponsors and Contributors are advised to have at least one representative subscribed to the OASIS Public Relations Group. Beginning January 2004, announcements on upcoming press releases and other promotional opportunities at the consortium will only be sent to this group, in an effort to reduce email traffic on the general OASIS members list. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200310/msg00010.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Track OASIS Deadlines The member info column on the OASIS homepage has been redesigned to make it easier to stay on top of deadlines and opportunities for involvement. The new section includes a quick breakdown by date of consortium activities to participate in, review, vote on, and attend. http://www.oasis-open.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Team Talks 19-23 Jan--Karl Best will present "Implementing Vertical XML standards" as well as participating in a panel discussion on "Web Services and XML standards: Can we benefit while avoiding pitfalls?" at OOP 2004 in Munich, Germany. 22-23 Jan--Pim van der Eijk will present "Web Services Standards for Business and Enterprise Integration" at COMDEX Scandinavia in Göteborg, Sweden. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS is an open, international consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. For information about membership, contact scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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