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OASIS News
20 May 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.


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TC ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee has been
formed. The Electronic Court Filing TC will develop specifications for
the use of XML to create legal documents and to transmit legal
documents.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200205/msg00012.html

The OASIS Controlled Trade Markup Language Technical Committee has been
formed. The Controlled Trade TC will develop a unified trade control
vocabulary that supports an international collection of business
documents (e.g., trade applications, cases, licenses, delivery
verification certificates, etc.)
through the extension and expansion of an existing XML vocabulary.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200205/msg00009.html

Two new OASIS discussion lists have been created to discuss the creation
of OASIS Technical Committees in the LegalXML member section; eNotary
and Legislative.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200205/msg00014.html

A new OASIS discussion list has been created to discuss the creation of
an OASIS Technical Committee. This discussion list will be formed to
establish consensus on the creation of a Management Services Technical
Committee.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200205/msg00015.html

The OASIS Election and Voter Services TC has approved EML (Election
Markup Language) Version 1 as a Committee Specification.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/


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TC MEETINGS
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The OASIS Rights Language TC will hold the initial F2F meeting on 21
May, Bethesda, MD.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/rights/

The OASIS UBL TC and ANSI ASC X12 will co-locate meetings 3-7 June in
Minneapolis, Minn. Pre-registration ends 24 May.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/
http://www.x12.org/apps/pr/prdoc.cfm?Name=729

The OASIS ebXML CPPA TC will hold its next F2F 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 its next F2F 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 TM Vocab for XML Stds TC will hold its next F2F meeting 24
May, 13:00-16:00 (local time), Hotel Princesa Sofia Inter-Continental in
the *VICTORIA Room in Barcelona. For more information, please contact TC
chair, H. Holger Rath (holger.rath@empolis.com).
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xmlvoc/

The OASIS Topic Maps Published Subjects TC will hold its next F2F 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/

The OASIS TM Pub Sub GeoLang TC will hold its next F2F 24 May,
18:00 -20:00 (local time), Hotel Princesa Sofia Inter-Continental in the
*VICTORIA Room in Barcelona. For more information, please contact TC
chair Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@ontopia.net).
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/geolang/


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CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Interoperability Summit Call For Papers closes soon. The second
Interoperability Summit will be held 27-28 June 2002
(Thursday and Friday) at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida.
Sponsor organizations include HR-XML, OASIS, OMG, and XBRL.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200205/msg00008.html

OASIS is pleased to announce that Arijit Sengupta of Oracle has accepted
our invitation to serve as a Technical Representative on the UN/CEFACT
OASIS Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) on ebXML.
The ebXML JCC coordinates efforts to drive the adoption and
implementation of all the ebXML specifications.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200205/msg00010.html

Board of Directors nomination reminder. Nominations by OASIS member
organizations should be submitted by the
organization's OASIS voting representative by 12:00 midnight EDT on 5
June 2002 to nominations@oasis-open.org.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200205/msg00013.html


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ebXML
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"ebXML for electronic business" meeting 6 June, The Hague (Netherlands).
Organized by the Netherlands Electronic Commerce Platform, on behalf of
the CEN/ISSS eBES workshop.
http://www.ecp.nl/roadshow/home.htm, CEN/eBES homepage:
http://www.cenorm.be/isss/Workshop/eBES/Default.htm


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NEW OASIS MEMBERS
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OASIS is pleased to announce that the United States Department of State,
www.state.gov, has joined the Consortium as sponsor
members.  New OASIS Contributors include Mediapps, Steven Taylor and
Associates, Screamingmedia Inc., Sure On Sight Ltd.,  Superior Court of
Orange County, California, Wolters Kluwer, California Administrative
Office of the Courts and the Washington State Administrator for the
Courts. We welcome these new member companies to OASIS and look forward
to their contributions.


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OASIS ON THE AGENDA
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21-23 May--XML Europe, Barcelona, Spain. Alessandro Triglia will present
"The ASN.1 Language as a New Schema Definition Language for XML."
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xcbf/

19-24 May--XML Europe, Barcelona Spain. OASIS will be active at this
conference, with speakers presenting topics related to TC activities,
and TC meetings will be held.
http://www.xmleurope.com/

23-24 May--Secure E-Biz Executive Summit, Washington, DC. Hal Lockhart,
Entegrity, chair of the OASIS XACML TC and Prateek Mishra, Netegrity, of
the OASIS SSTC will make presentation about SAML.
http://www.secure-biz.net/

29-30 May The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Forum, Geneva Switzerland, Patrick Gannon, will be a key presenter.
http://www.unece.org/trade/forums/forum02/index.htm

30 May--XML Content Management, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Pim van der
Eijk, the OASIS European Representative, will make a presentation.

4-6 June--Internet World 2002, Berlin, Germany. Pim van der Eijk, the
OASIS European Representative, will participate in a Web Services panel.
http://www.internetworldmesse.de/

4-7 June--XML Web Service One, San Jose, California.  Leo Kraunelis,
General Manager of XML.org, will chair the track, 'Understanding & Using
the Standards' and Una Kearns of Documentum and a member of the OASIS
Board of Directors will participate. Jeff Hodges of Sun Microsystems
Inc. and Joe Pato of HP, also co-chairs of the OASIS XML-Based Security
Services Technical Committee will speak about Security Assertion Markup
Language (SAML) Basics. Norbert Mikula, a member of the OASIS Board of
Directors will present "Web Services - A Manager's Guide."  G. Ken
Holman, chair of the OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Committee
will make three presentations on XSLFO and XSLT.
http://www.xmlconference.com/sanjose/

10-12 June 2002--Biometric Acceleration 2002, Washington, D.C. Phil
Griffin will present "XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF)."
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xcbf/


For event details:
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/


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