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Subject: President's Message to OASIS Members - January 2005


OASIS Members,

As we close out 2004 and look forward to 2005, I wanted to take a few
moments to thank you all for your support of the many important standards
development and adoption programs at OASIS.  Your involvement and feedback
is what continues to make OASIS one of the most relevant and influential
international, not-for-profit organizations.

Operations Update

The OASIS Board of Directors met last month and approved the 2005 Financial
Budget for the consortium.  They also approved the new Foundational Sponsor
membership level.  The Board's Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Committee
continues to work thoughtfully on responding to the member comments which
you provided on our proposed revisions to the OASIS IPR Policy and
Membership Agreement.  We expect to complete these revisions in early 2005.

Colin Evans resigned his seat on the OASIS Board of Directors, effective 18
December 2004, due to schedule demands required by his evolving position at
Intel.  Colin has served on the OASIS Board since July 2001.  As Board
Chairman, he provided exceptional leadership, helping to facilitate
tremendous growth, both in the size of our organization and breadth of our
technical work.  His skills at diplomacy and strategic vision have been
instrumental in our success, and I personally have valued the opportunity of
working closely with him.  On behalf of my fellow OASIS Board Directors,
staff, and members, I would like to thank Colin for his many years of
service to the Consortium and wish him the very best of luck in his future
endeavors.

A special election will be held in January-February 2005 to fill the open
Board seat, and I encourage you all to consider nominating an executive and
participating thoughtfully in the balloting. 

Other staff changes during the past month include the departure of Karl Best
and the promotion of Jamie Clark to Director of Standards Development and of
Mary McRae to Manager of TC Administration.  In addition, Andy Moir has
joined OASIS as Director of Business Development. I am excited by the
experience and innovation these directors and managers are bringing to
OASIS, as they join with our other staff directors, Scott McGrath and Carol
Geyer, to serve our members.

New OASIS Standards

OASIS members approved new OASIS Standards for Web Services Reliability
(WS-Reliability) v1.1 and Universal Business Language (UBL) v1.0.  Two new
profiles developed by the OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) TC were also
approved as OASIS Standards: the SAML Token Profile and the Rights
Expression Language (REL) Token Profile for use with WSS: SOAP Message
Security.  These new OASIS Standards advance e-business in several very
significant ways. WS-Reliability provides a standard, interoperable way to
guarantee message delivery to applications or Web services. UBL delivers a
much-needed XML library of business documents, such as purchase orders,
invoices, etc. The new WSS profiles extend the utilization of WSS into
additional application environments.  Congratulations to all who
participated in the development of these open standards.

Looking Forward 

As OASIS continues its leadership role in developing and promoting open
standards for e-Business, Web services, security and many other
applications, it is important that we continue an aggressive program of
collaboration with other related standards efforts.  Recently, I was struck
by a comment from Claus Hohmann, CTO of Volkswagen Autostadt GmbH,
"Technology does not stand in the foreground, but rather the people -- with
technology supporting the people. Integration of feeling within the realm of
business is important."  His presentation was one of many excellent speeches
given at the Standards Edge: Future Generation conference last month.
http://www.etsi.org/future_generation/agenda.htm

I believe one of the ongoing challenges for OASIS is to continue to achieve
results for and through its members, while seeking innovation through
collaboration with governments, business enterprises and other nonprofit
organizations.  We will accomplish this by fostering a vibrant environment
where all stakeholders--including our hundreds of unaffiliated individual
members--work collaboratively to build and implement open standards.  I seek
your commitment and contribution as we continue to support our many
communities of interest within  OASIS.

In A World of Ideas, Frances Hesselbein, examines the forces I see working
within OASIS:
"The main reason for this upsurge of volunteer participation ... is not the
increase in need. The reason is the search for community, for commitment,
and for contribution. ... A vital civil society is built upon the three legs
of government, business, and nonprofit organizations. ... We have gained a
renewed belief in two enduring truths: first, healthy societies are built on
equally vibrant public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Second, the leaders
of these three sectors must achieve results in their organizations while
looking, working, and leading beyond the walls of their own enterprise.  ...
Innovation is an indispensable part of moving into the future, and it occurs
mostly through collaboration." 

Today we have over 4,000 active participants working in collaboration from
such diverse communities as government, legal, public safety, defense,
aerospace, financial services, healthcare, automotive, telecommunications,
manufacturing and building automation control.  The OASIS staff and Board
continues to seek new methods to better support our communities of members
as we move forward in this next year.  If you have recommendations, please
take a moment to let me or any of our Board Directors know your views and
suggestions.

Also, be sure to mark your calendars and plan to attend the many activities
around the OASIS Symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, scheduled for the
week of 24-29 April 2005.

We wish you all a Joyous New Year.

Best regards,

Patrick Gannon
President and CEO
OASIS
+1.978.667.5115 x201
www.oasis-open.org




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