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Subject: OASIS News: 6 Oct 2009
Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. ------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: * OASIS Blue Member Section forms * DocBook 5.0 ballot opens soon * XSPA SAML healthcare profile 1.0 ballot opens soon * XSPA XACML healthcare profile 1.0 ballot opens soon * EDXL-RM 1.0 Errata public review begins * Emergency Management Committee plans Interop at EMEX * European Commission holds workshop on ICT standards education * Important dates ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Blue Member Section forms This new group within OASIS will work to advance open standards for smart energy grids, intelligent buildings and other areas related to sustainability. OASIS Blue-affiliated TCs will capitalize on, profile and extend existing electronic commerce and data exchange standards. They will also advance needed taxonomies for natural resources and networked devices and articulate best practices for facilitation of smart economic development and smart energy. TCs that are expected to affiliate with OASIS Blue include Energy Interoperation, Energy Market Information Exchange (eMIX), and Open Building Information Exchange (oBIX). OASIS Blue also welcomes suggestions for forming new Committees in this arena. http://www.oasis-blue.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- DocBook 5.0 ballot opens soon OASIS Standard balloting for the DocBook Schema Version 5.0 opens 16 Oct and will close 31 Oct. Version 5.0 is a complete rewrite of DocBook in RELAX NG, resulting in a schema that remains true to the spirit of DocBook while removing inconsistencies that have arisen through DocBook's long evolution. The schema was developed by representatives of Foundational Sponsor, Sun Microsystems, and Sponsors, Cisco, HP, PTC, and others. All organizational members of OASIS are encouraged to vote on DocBook 5.0; those who wish to discuss the ballot may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200910/msg00002.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- XSPA SAML healthcare profile 1.0 ballot opens soon OASIS Standard balloting for the Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) Profile of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) for Healthcare version 1.0 opens 16 Oct and will close 31 Oct. This profile describes an XSPA framework using the SAML core standard and attributes to satisfy the security and privacy requirements of the healthcare community. The specification was developed by representatives of Foundational Sponsors, IBM and Sun Microsystems, and Sponsors, AOL, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, EMC, HP, Intel, Neustar, Nokia, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Skyworth TTG, U.S. Veterans Health Administration, and others. All organizational members of OASIS are encouraged to vote on the XSPA SAML healthcare profile; those who wish to discuss the ballot may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200910/msg00001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- XSPA XACML healthcare profile 1.0 ballot opens soon OASIS Standard balloting for the Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) Profile of the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) 2.0 for Healthcare Version 1.0 opens 16 Oct and will close 31 Oct. This profile is consistent with the TP 20 "Access Control Transaction Package" recognized by the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). The specification was developed by representatives of Foundational Sponsors, IBM and Sun Microsystems, and Sponsors, Boeing, CA, Cisco, EMC, Oracle, Red Hat, U.S. Veterans Health Administration, and others. All organizational members of OASIS are encouraged to vote on the XSPA XACML healthcare profile; those who wish to discuss the ballot may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200910/msg00000.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- EDXL-RM 1.0 Errata public review begins The Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM) 1.0 Errata lists changes made to the EDXML-RM specification. This public review ends 14 Oct. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200909/msg00002.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Emergency Management Committee plans Interop at EMEX The OASIS Emergency Adoption Committee will host an Interop demo at the Emergency Management & Homeland Security Expo (EMEX), 2-4 Nov, in Orlando, Florida. The EMEX demo follows on the success of the OASIS Interop at the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) event last week in Baltimore. Companies interested in participating in the EMEX Interop must reserve space by 19 Oct. Contact jane.harnad@oasis-open.org for details. https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/2009_IAEM_EM_InterOp/register_contact.php ------------------------------------------------------------------- European Commission holds workshop on ICT standards education Dr. Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, OASIS Senior Advisor on International Standards Policy, will be one of the moderators of the workshop, which will discuss training programmes to involve different interest groups in ICT European standardisation. The event will be held 18 Nov in Brussels. http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=3555&tpa_id=133&lang=en ------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates 14 Oct EDXL-RM 1.0 Errata public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200909/msg00002.html 15 Oct Energy Market Information Exchange (eMIX) TC holds first meeting http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200909/msg00000.html 16-31 Oct Members vote on OASIS Standard ballot for DocBook 5.0 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200910/msg00002.html Members vote on OASIS Standard ballot for XSPA SAML healthcare profile http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200910/msg00001.html Members vote on OASIS Standard ballot for XSPA XACML healthcare profile http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200910/msg00000.html 17 Oct Test Assertions for SCA Assembly Model 1.1 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200908/msg00002.html 22 Oct Symptoms Autonomic Framework (SAF) TC holds first meeting http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200909/msg00001.html 23 Oct Digital Signature Services (DSS) Profile public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200908/msg00005.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, French, Italian, and Korean. 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