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Subject: OASIS News: 26 Mar 2007
OASIS News 26 March 2007 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- HEADLINES: * OASIS expands with China Office * PKI transitions to IDtrust Member Section * Primeton becomes newest OASIS Foundational Sponsor * Members form OASIS ebXML Registry REST Subcommittee * TC provides WS-BPEL educational opportunities * Symposium to feature OpenDocument Workshop * McGrath promoted to Senior Director * Upcoming deadlines and events ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- OASIS expands with China Office The Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance has been selected to host the new OASIS China Office in Beijing. The OASIS China Office will focus on increased opportunities for new participation and enhanced services for existing members in China. A Chinese version of the OASIS web site and newsletter has been introduced in support of this outreach effort. http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-03-15.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PKI transitions to IDtrust Member Section The OASIS PKI Member Section has expanded its scope to encompass additional standards-based identity and trusted infrastructure technologies, policies, and practices. Under the new name, OASIS Identity and Trusted Infrastructure (IDtrust) Member Section, the group will oversee the work of the OASIS Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) and PKI Adoption Committees. Other TCs are invited to explore the advantages of working within this Member Section, and the group is open to ideas for forming new Committees. Nominations for the OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering Committee will remain open until 29 March. Elections will be held 2-9 April. http://www.oasis-idtrust.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Primeton becomes newest OASIS Foundational Sponsor OASIS welcomes Primeton, a provider of component-oriented software development and operations platforms, as its newest Foundational Sponsor. Major banks, telecom operators and equipment suppliers, and government agencies in China and around the world use Primeton products to gain agility in rapidly changing business and regulatory environments. Primeton helps businesses build SOA solutions that support SCA/SDO specifications. Primeton joins other OASIS Foundational Sponsors, BEA Systems, EDS, IBM, SAP, and Sun Microsystems. OASIS gratefully acknowledges the contributions of these major supporters and applauds their commitment to advancing open standards. http://www.oasis-open.org/about/foundational_sponsors.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Members form OASIS ebXML Registry REST Subcommittee David Webber will chair a new sub-committee that will produce a specification document to allow implementers to develop a complimentary, optional, REST-based interface for the ebXML Registry OASIS Standard. This work will not replace the existing interface, but will augment the access methods that the ebXML Registry can support based on the current RIM and APIs. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=regrep-rest ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TC provides WS-BPEL educational opportunities The OASIS Symposium will feature the "WS-BPEL Workshop" on Wednesday, 18 April, in San Diego. Registration is free to Symposium attendees and also available separately. Recorded versions of two recent webinars, "WS-BPEL Technical Overview for Developers and Architects" and "The Business Value of WS-BPEL for Business Analysts and Managers" are now available online. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsbpel#announcements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- OASIS Symposium to feature OpenDocument Workshop The members of the OASIS ODF Adoption Committee will be hosting a special half day Symposium workshop dedicated to topics important to understanding the ODF standard and its technology on Wednesday, 18 April, in San Diego. Presentations will cover OpenDocument accessibility, programmability, and interoperability issues. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/wednesday-friday.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- McGrath promoted to Senior Director In recognition of his increased responsibility and demonstrated corporate leadership, Scott McGrath as been promoted to the role of Senior Director of Member Services at OASIS. Scott will continue to supervise the administrative and accounting team and member outreach. Scott will also take on new responsibilities, working to oversee portions of OASIS corporate financial affairs and communications efforts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Upcoming deadlines 27 Mar: eContracts v1.0 public review http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200701/msg00013.html 28 Mar: Comments on proposed Test Assertions Guidelines (TAG) TC http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200703/msg00011.html 31 Mar: Digital Signature Services (DSS) 1.0 OASIS Standard ballot http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200703/msg00016.html WS-Transaction 1.1 OASIS Standard ballot http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200703/msg00015.html WS-Context 1.0 OASIS Standard ballot http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200703/msg00014.html WS-BPEL 2.0 OASIS Standard ballot http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200703/msg00013.html 2 April: Comments on proposed Web Services Federation (WSFED) TC http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200703/msg00018.html 4 May: DITA v1.1 public review http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200703/msg00007.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Upcoming events 15-20 April 2007 OASIS Symposium: eBusiness and Open Standards San Diego, CA, USA http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/index.php 17-19 April 2007 6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop Gaithersburg, MD, USA http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki07/ 8-9 May 2007 Web Services Security Conference & Exhibition Baltimore, MD, USA http://www.unatekconference.com/ 16-17 June 2007 XML Prague Prague, the Czech Republic http://www.xmlprague.cz/index.html 22-27 July 2007 XML Summer School 2007 Oxford, UK http://www.csw.co.uk/events.asp#ss07 All events: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/calendar.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. Volunteers to translate the newsletter into other languages are welcome; contact communications@oasis-open.org. Archives: http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_archive.php
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