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OASIS News 22 April 2002 Welcome to OASIS News, a publication for the OASIS membership community providing updates on Consortium announcements, accomplishments and activities. OASIS News is published twice a month. ----------------------------- TC ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MEETINGS ----------------------------- The OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Committee is putting out an appeal for added membership to bolster the efforts of the existing committee members. Please consider your company's possible contribution to the effort and contact the chair G. Ken Holman at mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com if you wish to get involved in this activity http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xslt/ Three OASIS LegalXML Discussion Lists have been created. Each list and its archive will be deleted after 90 days. The lists are: legalxml-courtfiling-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org legalxml-transcripts-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org legalxml-econtracts-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200204/msg00002.html The OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language TC will hold its next face to face 22-24 Apr in Milan, Italy. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/ The OASIS Business Transaction TC will hold its next face to face meeting 16-17 May in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. For more information, please contact TC chair, Bill Pope (zpope@pobox.com). Also, Version 0.9.5 of the BTP specification is available from the OASIS website. https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/business-transactions An OASIS positioning paper, "UBL and Industry XML Standards," is now available at http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lsc/200204/industry.pdf, produced by the OASIS UBL TC's Marketing Subcommittee. The OASIS UBL TC will hold its next meeting on 3-7 June in Minneapolis, Minnesota and it will be hosted by ASC X12. Further details and registration for the meeting will be arranged by the X12 secretariat, DISA, and will be announced in a future message to the ubl-comment list. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ The OASIS CIQ TC will hold its next meeting via teleconference on 26 April at 9:00AM (EST). The CIQ TC welcomes Mr. Mark Meadows of Microsoft Corporation as a new committee member. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/ The OASIS XCBF TC will hold its next meeting 16 May in Somerset, New Jersey. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xcbf/ The OASIS ebXML CPPA TC will hold its next face to face 3-5 June in Reston, VA at Mercator Software. For more information contact David Smiley, 703.390.9913 (dsmiley@mercator.com). www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-cppa/meetings/ftf_06_2002.shtml The OASIS ebXML IIC TC will hold a meeting at XML Europe in Barcelona on 21 May. For further information, please contact TC co-chair, Jeffery Eck (Jeffrey.Eck@gxs.ge.com). http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-iic/ The OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC announces the revision of the Message Service Specification to version 2.0 Revision C has been completed. The specification has received formal approval to become a Technical Committee specification. The Specification has been submitted to become an OASIS standard. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg/ The OASIS Election and Voter Services TC has tentatively scheduled its next meeting for 26 April. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/ The OASIS Security Services TC (SSTC) announces a new email distribution list, saml-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, expressly for discussion amongst SAML developers is now available. Before sending messages to the saml-dev list, you must first subscribe. To subscribe, send an email message to saml-dev-request@lists.oasis-open.org with the word "subscribe" as the body of the message. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/ The OASIS Vocabulary for XML Standards and Technologies TC (XMLvoc TC) will hold its next face to face meeting 24 May, 13:00-16:00 (local time), Hotel Princesa Sofia Inter-Continental in the Diagonal Room in Barcelona. For more information, please contact TC chair, H. Holger Rath (holger.rath@empolis.com). https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xmlvoc/ OASIS Topic Maps Published Subjects TC will hold its next meeting via teleconference 30 April 30 at 15:00 - 17:00 UTC and its next face to face in Barcelona at XML Europe 2002 on 24 May. For more information, please contact TC chair, Bernard Vatant (bernard.vatant@mondeca.com) https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj/ OASIS Topic Maps Published Subjects for Geography and Languages (GeoLang) TC will hold its next face to face 24 May 24, 18:00 - 20:00 (local time), Hotel Princesa Sofia Inter-Continental in the Diagonal Room in Barcelona. For more information, please contact TC chair Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@ontopia.net) https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/geolang/ OASIS members are encouraged to review three TC-approved specs for voting on OASIS Standards in April. Comments on the specs may be posted to each TC’s public comment list. Balloting will take place 1-30 April. Each OASIS organizational member has one vote, and results will be announced on or before 7 May. OASIS/ebXML Registry Services Specification (RS) v2.0 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200201/msg00002.html OASIS/ebXML Registry Information Model (RIM) v2.0 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200201/msg00003.html DSML V2.0 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200201/msg00001.html ------------------------ CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------------------ CECID Launches Test Site of OASIS ebXML V2 Registry Reference Implementation On 8 April, 2002, The Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), Department of Computer Science Information Systems and The University of Hong Kong (HKU) announced the immediate availability of an OASIS ebXML V2 Registry. This implementation of the OASIS ebXML V2 Registry/Repository (ebXMLRR) standard fully implements all functions of the standard and is currently in its beta release version. CECID encourages developers interested in developing ebXML related products and services to use this implementation for testing purposes. The HKU ebXML Registry is available at http://registry.csis.hku.hk:8201/ebxmlrr/registry through Registry client software. ACORD Brings Insurance Industry to OASIS UBL Liaisons On 19 April, ACORD, the insurance industry standards organization, became the latest industry group to appoint a representative to the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee. ACORD joins liaisons from a broad group of industry standards organizations in the subcommittee that provides guidance to UBL, the initiative to define standard XML business forms for electronic commerce. http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_04_19_02.shtml ebXML Marketing Are you interested in driving ebXML market development for your company? Curious to know in which verticals ebXML is seeing widespread adoption and what this might mean to your company? Want to know how to align your company's market development and general marketing activities with upcoming ebXML activities? Please join us for a one day event to discuss ebXML market development in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday, 22 May. This discussion will be held in conjunction with the eBusiness Transition Ad-Hoc Working Group (eBTWG) meeting at the World Trade Center. Please RSVP to Carol Geyer at carol.geyer@oasis-open.org. Technical Advisory Board The Consortium is forming the OASIS Technical Advisory Board, an elected group of industry experts who will provide input to the OASIS Board of Directors on technical topics meriting member consideration. Member elections will be held 1-30 April. Voting reps from each company should go to http://www.oasis-open.org/members/tab/nominations.shtml to review the nominations and review information for casting your ballot. --------------- MEMBER BENEFITS --------------- OASIS members are encouraged to promote their ebXML products and implementations on http://www.ebxml.org/implementations/index.htm. To have your ebXML product featured on this page, please email your product name, brief description including which ebXML specs are implemented and a URL for more information to carol.geyer@oasis-open.org ----------------- NEW OASIS MEMBERS ----------------- OASIS is pleased to announce that Hanghai Wellhope Information Security Company, www.wellhopegroup.com, FGM Inc., www.fgm.com, and Motorola, www.motorola.com, have joined the Consortium as sponsor members. New OASIS Contributors include Media Fusion USA, Xtradyne Technologies AG, Objective Systems Inc., Information Systems Advisory Board, Arizona Court of Appeals, and The Office of State Courts Administrator. We welcome these new member companies to OASIS and look forward to their contributions. ---------------------- OASIS MEMBER DISCOUNTS ---------------------- OASIS members are eligible for discounts on online educational tutorials, conference registration fees and/or exhibiting fees at many industry events. Conferences: April 1-30, Web Services Reality Spring 2002, Virtual Event, OASIS members receive a 15% Conference iPass discount May 7-9, Wireless Edge Conference, Santa Clara, California, 10% discount May 20-23, NEXTWARE Spring 2002, Baltimore, Maryland, OASIS members can attend NEXTWARE Spring 2002 for only $50! email dee.schur@oasis-open.org for further information. See http://www.oasis-open.org/members/member_discounts.shtml for more information on member discounts ------------------- OASIS ON THE AGENDA ------------------- 23 April--SIMC's Meeting on Industry Semantics, New York, New York Dale Waldt, OASIS Program Development Consultant, will be speaking as well as, Ann Thomas Manes of Systinet and the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee. 25 April--e-GIF & XML in Government, Manchester, England Patrick Gannon, President & CEO of OASIS will chair this event and make an XML in e-Government presentation. 13-14 May--ITU-T Workshop on Security, Seoul, Republic of Korea Phil Griffin, chair of the OASIS XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) TC, will make a presentation. http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/security/program.html For event details: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/ -------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is available to any employee of an OASIS Sponsor or Contributor organization and all Individual members. 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