All,
Please see message from Carol, press release
at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-06-02-13.php
Regards,
Siobhan
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Geyer
[mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org]
Sent: 13 February 2006
15:45
To: Siobhan Donaghy
Subject: FW: [announce] Members Approve
Election Markup Language (EML) as OASIS Standard
Importance:
High
Sioban,
Could you please send this message to the OASIS
E&VS TC members for me?
Thanks,
Carol
OASIS Election and Voter Services Committee
Members:
The following press release was issued this
morning and is posted at
http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-06-02-13.php.
Your
help in raising awareness of this exciting news
would be most appreciated. Please consider:
*linking to this release from your
organization's web site
*translating this press release into another
language (notify me so OASIS can post or link to your
translation)
*distributing the announcement to appropriate
email lists, forums, etc.
*issuing a press release from your organization
in support of EML and your participation in its
development
*sending me links to any EML press coverage you
see, so we can add to the Committee's Press
page
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/press.php)
With congratulations and
thanks,
Carol
-----Original
Message-----
From: Carol Geyer
[mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:06
AM
To:
announce@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [announce] Members Approve Election
Markup Language (EML) as OASIS Standard
Importance: High
Members Approve Election Markup Language (EML)
as OASIS Standard
Boston, MA, USA;
13 February 2006 -- OASIS, the international standards consortium, today
announced that its members have approved
the Election Markup Language (EML) version 1.0
as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of
ratification.
Developed through an open process by the OASIS
Election and Voter Services Technical Committee, EML enables the secure
interchange
of information between electronic voting
systems, software, and services.
"EML provides a high-level overview of the
processes within an electronic voting system and XML schemas for the
various data
interchange points between the e-voting
processes," explained John Borras, out-going chair of the OASIS
Election and Voter Services
Committee. "It describes the data requirements
of the flows between electronic voting processes and addresses security
issues
relating to the exchange of
data."
Services addressed by EML include new voter
registration, membership and dues collection, change of address
tracking, redistribution
of electoral boundaries, requests for
absentee/expatriate ballots, election timetabling, polling place
management, election
notification and administration, ballot
delivery and vote counting, and election results reporting and
analysis.
"The increase in the use of electronic voting
techniques around the world has resulted in an explosion of products
and suppliers
addressing this market," said Siobhan Donaghy
of OPT2VOTE Ltd, secretary for the OASIS Election and Voter Services
Committee. "EML
provides the needed assurance that all these
products can work to the same standard."
EML has been developed following work over
several years by key representatives from IBM, Oracle, Sun
Microsystems, and other
suppliers in collaboration with international
government agencies across many countries. These organizations came
together to
develop a robust and reliable standard that
would provide a secure approach and sustain voter confidence in voting
practices.
"EML is designed to benefit public officials
who oversee voting in local or national elections and referendums, as
well as those who
conduct private elections within corporations
or other organizations. Suppliers of electronic voting systems profit
from EML by
reducing their development costs," noted
Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "Of course ultimately, it's
the voters who
stand to gain the most from this standard. The
added reliability that comes from using common data elements in a
consistent manner
provides more security and reduces costs in the
election process, which is a bottom-line benefit that has the potential
to touch us
all."
The OASIS Election and Voter Services Committee
remains open to new participation. Those interested in implementing EML
are
encouraged to exchange information via the
public eml-dev mailing list (http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/). As
with all Consortium
projects, archives of the OASIS Election and
Voter Services Committee's work are accessible to both members and
non-members, and
OASIS hosts an open mail list for public
comment on the standard.
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, CAP, DITA, DocBook, DSML, ebXML CPPA, ebXML Messaging, ebXML
Registry, EML,
OpenDocument, SAML, SPML, UBL, UDDI, WSDM,
WS-Reliability, WSRP, WS-Security, XACML, XCBF, and XML
Catalogs.
http://www.oasis-open.org
Additional
information:
OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical
Committee:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election
EML FAQ:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/faq.php
Cover Pages Technology Report:
http://xml.coverpages.org/eml.html
Press contact:
Carol Geyer
Director of
Communications
OASIS
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
+1.978.667.5115
x209