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Subject: OASIS News: 9 April 2007
OASIS News 9 April 2007 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HEADLINES: * Nominations open for OASIS Board and TAB * Test Assertions Guidelines (TAG) TC forms * Countdown to Symposium begins * Discussion list opens on document standards interoperability * OASIS WSRF TC completes work * Committees transition IPR mode * OASIS welcomes new Sponsors: Australian DEST, Jericho Systems, Rogue Wave, and World Bank ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations open for OASIS Board and TAB OASIS is now seeking candidates to fill five seats on its Board of Directors and four seats on its Technical Advisory Board (TAB). Board directors and TAB members each serve two-year terms. Any OASIS member organization may nominate candidates; nominees are not required to be members of the Consortium. A distinctive characteristic of OASIS is that its leadership is elected by the membership and not tied to financial contribution, corporate standing, or staff appointment. Everyone is encouraged to thoughtfully consider participation in the election process. http://www.oasis-open.org/who/election_process.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Assertions Guidelines (TAG) TC forms Members of OASIS have organized a TC to facilitate the creation and use of test assertions by OASIS Committees and others in an effort to improve the overall quality of standards. Proposers of the OASIS TAG TC include representatives from Fujitsu, the Korean Institute for Electronic Commerce, Sun Microsystems, and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Convened by Jacques Durand of Fujitsu, the TC's first meeting will be a teleconference on 3 May 3. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tag/200704/msg00000.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Countdown to Symposium begins Registrations are still being accepted for the fourth annual OASIS Symposium. This year's event on "eBusiness and Open Standards: Understanding the Facts, Fiction, and Future" will be held 15-20 April in San Diego, California. The Symposium will begin with a keynote by Bob Sutor, Open Source and Standards VP at IBM, and will close with an interactive panel where top executives from BEA Systems, EDS, IBM, Primeton, SAP, and Sun Microsystems debate SOA and Web services methods. Other highlights include TC Lightning Rounds, tabletop displays, the OASIS Annual General Members Meeting, an OASIS Board of Directors session open to members, and a special reception sponsored by the Changfeng Alliance. Two Wednesday Workshops--on OpenDocument and on WS-BPEL--will be free to Symposium attendees or available separately. Note: Attendees who blog about the Symposium are asked to email communications@oasis-open.org. Links to Symposium-related blogs will be promoted at the event and online. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Discussion list opens on document standards interoperability OASIS has created a new discussion list to explore the possibility of forming a technical committee to address the development and documentation of scenarios for cross-standard content sharing. Subscribers to the list will discuss the creation of a specification for an interoperability framework (including mappings from participating standard formats to the framework), as well as requirements on participating standards to improve interoperability. This mail list will remain open for 90 days. Anyone, including OASIS members and non-members, may subscribe in order to discuss the merits and possibility of the proposed project. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00009.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS WSRF TC completes work After producing version 1.2 of the Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) and successfully advancing the specification through the open standardization process, the OASIS WSRF TC is now closed. WSRF provides a standardized, interoperable platform for resource-based Web services that is widely used around the world. The Consortium congratulates TC co-chairs, David Snelling of Fujitsu and Ian Robinson of IBM, and all the members of the OASIS WSRF TC for their contributions and dedication to this effort. The TC's work, including its email archives, will remain permanently accessible to the public. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrf/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Committees transition IPR mode Five TCs recently transitioned to "RF on Limited Terms" mode, as defined by the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy. These include the OASIS ebXML Messaging Services, Election and Voter Services, Public Key Infrastructure Adoption, SOA Reference Model, and Web Services for Remote Portlets Committees. The OASIS Provisioning Services TC transitioned to the "RF on RAND Terms" IPR mode. http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS welcomes new Sponsor-level members: * Australian Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) (www.dest.gov.au/) develops and implements national policies to ensure the continuing relevance of education, science and training to contemporary needs and the growing requirement for lifelong learning. * Jericho Systems (www.jerichosystems.com) offers enterprise systems, software and services based on the SAML, XACML, and WS-Security OASIS Standards, as well as SOAP. * Rogue Wave (www.roguewave.com) delivers reusable software components and services for enterprise-class application development and high performance SOA. Rogue Wave recently upgraded from Contributor- to Sponsor-level membership in OASIS. * The World Bank (www.worldbank.org/) provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **MEMBERSHIP TIP #34** Present on OASIS work at conferences http://www.oasis-open.org/private/presenting.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines 9 April: OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering Committee elections http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200703/msg00024.html 11 April: OASIS Symposium advance registration (re-opens onsite 15 April) http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/registration.php 12 April: WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2 public review http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200703/msg00025.html 19 April: WebCGM v2.0 errata public review http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00008.html 1 May: OASIS Board and TAB nominations http://www.oasis-open.org/who/election_process.php 4 May: DITA v1.1 public review http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200703/msg00007.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Japanese, 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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