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Subject: [OASIS members] OASIS News--25 November 2002
OASIS News 25 November 2002 Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments and activities for the XML interoperability consortium. --------------------------------------------------------- OASIS XACML TC Approves Spec OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Technical Committee has voted unanimously to approve its XACML 1.0 document as a Committee Specification. The TC has begun a 30-day public review period of the specification, which will conclude 8 December 2002, comments and feedback are requested. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200211/msg00003.html --------------------------------------------------------- RELAX NG Compact Syntax Published as an OASIS Committee Specification The OASIS RELAX NG TC has released a committee spec for RELAX NG Compact Syntax which describes a compact, non-XML syntax for the RELAX NG Specification, edited by James Clark. The compact syntax is specified by a grammar in BNF; the translation into the XML syntax is specified by annotations in the grammar. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-21-a.html --------------------------------------------------------- SAML and WS-Security Win Award OASIS WS-Security and SAML won the PC Magazine Award for Technical Excellence. The 19th annual awards recognize individuals and products that advanced the state of technology and set new standards for technical innovation in 2002. Congratulations to all the members of the OASIS Security Services TC and the OASIS Web Services Security TC! http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,715069,00.asp --------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Members Collaborate to Advance Open XML Format for Office Applications On 20 November, OASIS publicly announced the formation of a new technical committee to advance an open, XML-based file format for office applications. This new work brings together Arbortext, Boeing, Corel, Drake Certivo, Sun Microsystems, and others committed to establishing standard data interoperability for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphs. http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_11_20_02.shtml --------------------------------------------------------- Localization Activity Picks Up at OASIS A Call for Participation has been issued for the new OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee. A key objective of this TC will be to establish a complete set of business process terminology for the software/content localization and translation industries. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200211/msg00013.html -------------------------------------------------------- LegalXML Member Section Adds Lawful Intercept A Call for Participation has been issued for the OASIS LegalXML Lawful Intercept (LI-XML) Technical Committee. LI-XML will assist law enforcement and telecommunication providers in the discovery of investigative or evidentiary records. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200211/msg00014.html --------------------------------------------------------- Content Assembly Mechanism Comes to OASIS A Call for Participation has been issued for the OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) Technical Committee. CAM will allow business process mechanisms, industry standard schemas, registry systems, and schema mechanisms to be brought together in a consistent and standard way to publish assembly implementation instructions. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200211/msg00015.html --------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor OASIS Reception at XML 2002 OASIS will host a members-only reception on Wednesday, 11 Dec at XML 2002, 7:00-8:30PM. The event will celebrate the specifications that have attained OASIS Open Standard status this year. OASIS Member companies are encouraged to demonstrate their commitment to OASIS by underwriting the cost of this event. We are inviting four sponsor members to contribute 1,000 USD in return for recognition of their sponsorship on the OASIS website, in the OASIS News, the XML.org Daily Newslink and sponsor logo placards posted at reception location. Please contact dee.schur@oasis-open.org for more information. Note: The final schedule of all TC meetings being held at XML 2002 is posted at http://www.oasis-open.org/members/meeting_schedule.shtml and http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2002/oasistcm.asp. Please contact dee.schur@oasis-open.org immediately if you have questions or concerns. --------------------------------------------------------- New OASIS Sponsors include: * Sarvega, Inc., www.sarvega.com, a provider of XML Switches. * Wells Fargo Bank, http://www.wellsfargo.com/, a diversified financial services company. * Booz Allen Hamilton, http://www.boozallen.com/, a global technology consultant. New OASIS Contributors include Surety, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Team Talks 2-4 Dec--Pim van der Eijk will make a presentation at e-Nordic 2002 in Oslo, Norway e-Nordic 2002 is an invitation only event offering senior e-business professionals a unique networking and learning opportunity. 4 Dec--Pim van der Eijk will make a 'UBL and ebXML' presentation at Eurofer in Brussels, Belgium. Eurofer is the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries. 8-13 Dec--Karl Best will present an OASIS Standards Update at XML 2002 in Baltimore, Maryland. Several member speakers are on the agenda. 10 Dec--OASIS members; Jouko Salonen, CEO Republica, and John Borras, Office of the e-Envoy, are schedules to speak at the e-GIF and XML in Government conference in Bristol, UK 10-11 Dec--Patrick Gannon will participate in a panel discussion at the "Building a Web Services Foundation" Conference in San Francisco, California. 11-12 Dec--Karl Best will participate in a Standards Process panel at the Workshop on Open Trust Infrastructures in Washington DC, http://www.security.scs.cmu.edu/ot2002/index.htm. For more information on Events, see http://www.oasis-open.org/events/. Details on OASIS member discounts are provided at http://www.oasis-open.org/members/member_discounts.shtml ---------------------------------------------------------
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