OASIS News - 27 January 2005

["Matt Davids" <oasis-news@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS NEWS
27 January 2005

Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments,
and activities for the international standards consortium.



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Hughes Leads OASIS Board of Directors


Jim Hughes of Hewlett-Packard was selected by his fellow directors to chair
the OASIS Board. Jim is Director of Software Standards in HP's Software
Global Business Unit, Technology Systems Group. He has served on the OASIS
Board since July 2001.

http://www.oasis-open.org/who/bod.php#hughes



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Balloting for Special Board of Directors Election Begins this Week

With Colin Evans of Intel having resigned his position on the OASIS Board of
Directors, a Special Election is being held to complete his term, which
expires in July 2006. Candidate nominations from OASIS members have ended as
of 21 Jan. Five candidates were nominated for the position. Balloting for
the Special Election will begin on 26 Jan, and continue until 11 Feb. Any
questions regarding the election should be directed to Scott McGrath
(scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org).


Candidate Information:

http://www.oasis-open.org/private/elections/2005special/candidates.php/



Voting Contact Information:

http://www.oasis-open.org/kmembers/person/roster/


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OASIS Standard Balloting for UDDI and XACML Ends Soon



Balloting to approve UDDI v3 and XACML v2 as OASIS Standards ends on 31 Jan.
All organizational members of OASIS are encouraged to review these candidate
specifications and participate in the balloting process.



http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=uddi-spec

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xacml



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OASIS PKI Member Section Supports Fourth Annual PKI R&D Conference



The 4th annual PKI R&D Conference, held 19-21 Apr in Gaithersburg, MD, USA,
will be jointly sponsored by NIH, NIST and Internet2, in cooperation with
the OASIS PKI Member Section. The event will feature workshops that cover
the full range of public key technologies, as well as related
infrastructures used for security decisions. In particular, this year's
focus will be on emergent trust mechanisms and how they will interact with
each other at technical, policy and user levels.



http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki05/



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OASIS Schedules TC Leadership Training in New Orleans



In conjunction with the OASIS Symposium in New Orleans, the Consortium will
conduct a training session and dialogue on how to effectively manage an
OASIS Committee. Staff will join new, existing, and prospective TC leaders
to discuss issues such as the TC Process, IPR Policy, Kavi, membership,
InterOp demonstrations, publicity, specification testing, and more. The
session will also address best practices for building consensus, promoting
adoption, coping with legal realities, and taking advantage of Consortium
resources. All TC chairs, secretaries, and editors are strongly advised to
attend this session, as well as anyone interested in leading a future OASIS
Committee. Please contact Jane Harnad (jane.harnad@oasis-open.org) if you
have questions regarding this event.



http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2005



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OASIS Federated Identity InterOp Demo to be held at RSA Conference, 16-17
February

OASIS, GSA E-Authentication Initiative, Enspier, and RSA Security will
co-sponsor the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) v2.0 OASIS Standard
InterOp Demo at the RSA Conference on 16-17 February in San Francisco.
Computer Associates, DataPower, Enspier, Entrust, Hewlett Packard, NIPPON
Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), OpenNetworks, Oracle, RSA Security, Sun
Microsystems, Symlabs and Trustgenix will come together to demonstrate
secure exchange of authentication, attribute, and authorization information
between disparate security domains, which makes vendor-independent web
single sign-on and secure e-business transactions possible.

http://2005.rsaconference.com/us/exhibitor/exhibitor_info.aspx?id=32579

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Increase Recognition with a Logo on the OASIS Homepage



The OASIS homepage features the logos of Consortium Sponsor Members, linked
to their organizations' web sites. This is one example of how OASIS Sponsors
are recognized for their contributions to open standards development. If you
represent a Sponsor member and your logo is not currently posted, or if
you'd like to upgrade your membership to take advantage of this promotional
benefit, please contact dee.schur@oasis-open.org.


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OASIS on the Agenda



24-28 Jan - Boundaryless Information Flow TM: Architecting Identity
Management. San Francisco, CA. Patrick Gannon will speak on interoperable
identity management solutions at the conference. OASIS members are eligible
for a discount.



9 Feb - XML Symposium. Orlando, Florida. Patrick Gannon will speak on the
subject of how standards for XML and Web services are created and the
importance of working with other standard initiatives in the IT Industry.



14-16 Feb - RSA Conference 2005. San Francisco, California. The event will
feature the OASIS Federated Identity InterOp demonstration of SAML 2.0.
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OASIS Co-Sponsored Events



1-2 Feb - 2005 Web Services on Wall Street Show and Conference. New York,
NY. Patrick Gannon will present as part of the Web Services Standards Update
panel.




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