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Subject: OASIS Members Elect New Leaders


OASIS Members Elect New Leaders  

China Takes Active Role in Open Standards, Joining Large Telecommunications
Companies, Global Consultants, Software Providers, and Academia


Boston, MA, USA; 21 August 2006 -- OASIS, the international standards
consortium, today announced election results for its Board of Directors and
Technical Advisory Board (TAB). Paul Knight of Nortel was elected, and Ed Cobb
of BEA Systems, Robert Glushko, Ph.D, of the University of California,
Berkeley, Frederick Hirsch of Nokia, and Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle were
re-elected to the OASIS Board of Directors, which manages organizational
growth, defines policies and contributes to the strategic direction of the
consortium. 

The OASIS Board of Directors also includes Eduardo Gutentag of Sun
Microsystems, John Jackson of General Motors, Chris Kurt of Microsoft, Claus
von Riegen of SAP and Michael Winters of IBM, as well as Patrick Gannon, who
has an appointed seat on the Board of Directors as President and CEO of OASIS. 

Newly elected TAB members include Abbie Barbir of Nortel, Bill Barnhill of Booz
Allen Hamilton, Jacques Durand of Fujitsu Limited, and Andy Lee of China's
Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance. They join existing TAB
members, Martin Chapman, Ph.D. of Oracle, William Cox, Ph.D., Hal Lockhart of
BEA Systems, and Pete Wenzel of Sun Microsystems. The TAB provides guidance on
issues related to  process, interoperability, and scope of OASIS technical
work. 

Gutentag, chair of the OASIS Board, commented, "Our directors' affiliations
reflect the nature of the OASIS organization—internationally diverse and
representative of the entire community of users, suppliers, governments,
academia, and consultants." He pointed to Nortel's participation as "evidence
of the relevance of our work for major industries such as telecommunications."
Gutentag also welcomed representation from China's Changfeng Alliance on the
OASIS TAB. "The open standards developed within OASIS have a tremendous impact
on software development and standards adoption around the world. We look
forward to Changfeng's contributions to our collaborative efforts."

On behalf of the membership, OASIS CEO and president, Patrick Gannon, expressed
appreciation to departing Board member Mike DeNicola of Fujitsu Software, who
agreed to continue as Treasurer for the Board. Gannon also thanked departing
TAB members, Mike Mahan, Jishnu Mukerji of HP, and Tim Stevens of LexisNexis,
for their contributions to the consortium. 


About OASIS

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is
a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development,
convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the
OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to
promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. The consortium produces
open standards for Web services, security, e-business, and standardization
efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in
1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600
organizations and individual members in 100 countries. Approved OASIS Standards
include AVDL, BCM, CAP, DITA, DocBook, DSML, ebXML CPPA, ebXML Messaging, ebXML
Registry, EDXL-DE, EML, OpenDocument, SAML, SPML, UBL, UDDI, WSDM,
WS-Reliability, WSRF, WSRP, WS-Security, XACML, XCBF, and XML Catalogs.
http://www.oasis-open.org


Additional information
OASIS Board of Directors
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/bod.php

OASIS TAB
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/tab.php

Press contact
Carol Geyer
OASIS Director of Communications
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
+1.978.667.5115 x209 (office)
+1.941.284.0403 (mobile)




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