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Subject: OASIS News: 7 July 2009
Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. ------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: * OASIS members elect Board and TAB * Board invites members to open meeting * WS-Discovery, SOAP-over-UDP, DPWS become OASIS Standards * IMI becomes OASIS Standard * DocBook Publishers Schema 1.0 public review begins * IDtrust invites presentations for Identity Management 2009 * ebCore Committee publishes brochure * OASIS co-sponsors Balisage Markup Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS members elect Board and TAB Dave Ings of IBM and Paul Lipton of CA were elected, Peter Brown of Pensive, Mike DeNicola of Fujitsu, and Eduardo Gutentag of Sun Microsystems were re-elected to the OASIS Board of Directors, which also includes Bob Freund of Hitachi, Robert Glushko of UC Berkeley, Frederick Hirsch of Nokia, Jim Hughes of Microsoft, Paul Knight, and Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle. Martin Chapman of Oracle, William Cox, and Patrick Durusau were re-elected to the Technical Advisory Board (TAB). The Consortium expresses deepest appreciation to departing Board members, Michael Winters of IBM, who has served on the Board since 2001, and Claus von Riegen of SAP, who has served on the Board since 2005. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200906/msg00010.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Board invites members to open meeting The OASIS Board of Directors has designated its 30-31 July face-to-face meeting as open to members. The meeting will be held at Oracle's offices in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA. A draft agenda will be available on 14 July. To ensure adequate seating, members are asked to register in advance with member-services@oasis-open.org. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200907/msg00001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- WS-Discovery, SOAP-over-UDP, DPWS become OASIS Standards Members have approved versions 1.1 of the Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-Discovery), SOAP-over-UDP, and Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS) specifications as OASIS Standards. Developed by the Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile (WS-DD) TC, these new standards enable secure Web service messaging, discovery, description, and eventing on resource-constrained endpoints. Congratulations to the WS-DD TC chairs, Alain Regnier of Ricoh and Toby Nixon of Microsoft, and to all TC participants including representatives of Foundational Sponsors, IBM and Microsoft, and Sponsors, CA, Novell, Progress Software, Red Hat, Ricoh, and Software AG, for this accomplishment. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200907/msg00003.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200907/msg00002.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200907/msg00001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMI becomes OASIS Standard Members have approved the Identity Metasystem Interoperability (IMI) version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard. IMI allows users to manage their digital identities as "Information Cards" and use them to access online services. Congratulations to the IMI TC chair, Marc Goodner of Microsoft, and to all TC participants including representatives of Foundational Sponsors, IBM and Microsoft, and Sponsors, CA and Novell, for this accomplishment. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200907/msg00000.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- DocBook Publishers Schema 1.0 public review begins The DocBook Publishers Schema provides an official variant of DocBook to support the publishing of periodicals, journals, non-technical books, educational textbooks, and other document types. This public review ends 31 August. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200907/msg00004.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- IDtrust invites presentations for Identity Management 2009 "Transparent Government: Risks, Rewards and Repercussions" is the theme of the event, which will be held 29-30 September at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) near Washington, D.C. OASIS is currently seeking proposals for presentations and panel sessions that relate to security challenges faced in identity management and access to information on large scales. The deadline to submit proposals is 10 July. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2009/call ------------------------------------------------------------------- ebCore Committee publishes brochure The benefits of ebXML are outlined in a new document aimed at users, business executives, services administrators, and applications solutions providers. An overview of where ebXML is being used is included. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/32910/ebXML-Top-Reasons.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS co-sponsors Balisage Markup Conference Mary McRae, OASIS Director of Standards Development, will participate in the "XML Best Practices" panel session at this year's Balisage Markup Conference in Montreal, 11-14 August. Balisage is a peer-reviewed conference designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. OASIS members are eligible for a registration discount. Contact events@oasis-open.org for details. http://www.balisage.net/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: 10 Jul Call for Presentations closes for Identity Management 2009 http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2009/call 20 Jul Public review of eight XACML specifications ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200905/msg00006.html 27 Jul Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) 1.2 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200905/msg00008.html 30-31 Jul OASIS Board meeting open to members http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200907/msg00001.html 7 Aug SCA-J and SCA POJO 1.1 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200906/msg00004.html 14 Aug DSS Signature Policy Profile 1.0 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200906/msg00005.html WS-SecurityPolicy Examples public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200906/msg00007.html 16 Aug CIQ Party Relationships (xPRL) 3.0 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200906/msg00014.html 31 Aug DocBook Publishers Schema 1.0 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200907/msg00004.html 29-30 Sept OASIS IDtrust Identity Management 2009, Gaithersburg, MD, USA http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, French, and Korean. 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