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Subject: President's Message to OASIS Members - October 2006
Dear Members, It remains one of my greatest pleasures to work with such an international organization as OASIS. Activities this month are an especially good example of the breadth and depth of our global presence. A highlight of the month of October is always the International World Standards Day on the14th . This year the theme was "Standards: big benefits for small business". See the reference on the ISO webpage: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/2006/Ref1026.html The OASIS Board of Directors met in Geneva, Switzerland on 12-13 October, which enabled us to meet with executives from several of the Standards Development Organizations with whom we maintain productive liaison relationships. This was a great opportunity for us to exchange views regarding the current trends in e-Business standardization and the priorities for future cooperation and joint activities. On 12 October the Board met senior secretariat members from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T). The Director, Dr Houlin Zhao, was accompanied by senior Counselors from ITU-T, Simao Ferraz de Campos Neto, Richard Hill, and Georges Sebek. We engaged in a lively discussion about ongoing cooperation to bring OASIS Standards into ITU-T processes and through that to bring about broader adoption on a global scale. Dr. Zhao highlighted the recent approval of the SAML OASIS Standard as ITU-T x.1141 and XACML as ITU-T x.1142. In addition, the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP v2.0) OASIS Standard has just been submitted to the ITU-T Study Group 17 to begin their approval process. As another example of the cooperation between OASIS and ITU, the two organizations have been working jointly to hold the Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning which took place at the ITU-T headquarters in Geneva on 19-20 October. The OASIS Board also met with the new Chair of the UN/CEFACT Forum Management Group, Mike Doran of CERN, who is currently a Vice-Chair of the UN/CEFACT Bureau. Mr. Doran was accompanied by senior members of the secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which provides the supporting services for UN/CEFACT. The delegation included Virginia Cram-Martos, Director of the Trade & Timber Division, Jean Kubler, the Chief of Trade Facilitation & E-Business, and Mika Vepsalainen, the Secretary to the UN/CEFACT Plenary. We talked with the UN visitors about how to move forward in mutually beneficial ways to promote our common interests. Later, Daniele Gerundino, the Strategy Counselor to the ISO Secretary General, met with us. He noted that OASIS had a valued relationship with ISO due to our ability to work together on technology, policy and strategy levels. Mr. Gerundino congratulated the Board on the innovative contribution that OASIS makes to standardization globally. While in Geneva, the Board of Directors also approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the Korea Institute of Electronic Commerce (KIEC). I look forward to speaking at the Korea eBusiness conference and signing this MOU with KIEC on 30-31 October. After the Board meeting, Geneva was also the location for the Public Warning Workshop, which featured the CAP OASIS Standard. The event included representatives of the European Commission Directorate General Information Society and Media, Swedish Post and Telecom Agency, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN/OCHA), United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United States Department of Homeland Security, World Health Organization (WHO), and World Weather Watch of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The event attracted 79 attendees from 26 different countries: Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Nepal, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam. Thanks to OASIS Sponsor-level member, Verisign, for hosting a reception here. The excellent presentations from this event will be posted here shortly. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/ITU-T-OASISWorkshop2006/index.php On schedule later this month is a series of meetings with various New Zealand government agencies, including State Services Commission, Inland Revenue, and Ministry of Education, in Wellington, who are active members in OASIS. We are also pleased to support important OASIS Open Standards events in Sydney, Australia on 25-27 October, and in Wiesbaden, Germany on 8-9 November. These are only a snapshot of the many OASIS international activities that take place every month. We recognize that supporting a diverse set of members (we have over 5000 participants ) poses some unique challenges. The OASIS staff are continuing efforts to address these global support issues. For example, we are testing use of international conference call bridges to enable members to access any conference call bridge for TC meetings through a local country call-in facility. If any of our members have further suggestions for how we can improve support for your participation in OASIS activities, please let me, or any of my staff know your suggestions. Safe travels, Patrick Gannon President & CEO OASIS +1.978.667.5115 x201 - office +1.978.761.3546 - mobile Skype: pgannon www.oasis-open.org
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