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Subject: OASIS News: 18 Oct 2010
OASIS News 18 Oct 2010 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. ----------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: * TC Process changes take effect * OASIS Standard vote opens for XSPA Profile * OASIS Standard vote opens for XRD * IAEM hosts OASIS Emergency Standards Interop * Legal XML organizes Stanford Open Government Workshop * Emergency Management TC hosts webinar * OASIS News adds Dutch Translation * Vormetric becomes newest Sponsor member ----------------------------------------------------------------- TC Process changes take effect Recently approved revisions to the OASIS TC Process went into effect on 15 Oct. All members are encouraged to review the new Policy and associated FAQ. On 20 Oct, Mary McRae, TC Administrator, will host a webinar to answer member questions on the impact of these changes. All are invited to attend. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tcmembers/201010/msg00000.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Standard vote opens for XSPA Profile Balloting for the Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) Profile of WS-Trust for Healthcare 1.0 is now underway and will close 31 Oct. This profile describes how to leverage the WS-Trust OASIS Standard to satisfy information-centric security requirements for healthcare.The profile was developed by representatives of OASIS Foundational Sponsor, IBM, as well as Avaya, Cisco, Jericho Systems, Red Hat, U.S. Veterans Health Administration, and others. All organizational members of OASIS are encouraged to vote on the XSPA Profile of WS-Trust; those who wish to discuss the ballot may do so through oasis-member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201010/msg00006.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Standard vote opens for XRD Balloting for the Extensible Resource Descriptor (XRD) 1.0 is now underway and will close 31 Oct. XRD defines a simple generic format for describing resources. Resource descriptor documents provide machine-readable information about resources (resource metadata) for the purpose of promoting interoperability. The specification was developed by representatives of AOL, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Neustar, Nomura Research Institute, and others. All organizational members of OASIS are encouraged to vote on XRD; those who wish to discuss the ballot may do so through oasis-member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201010/msg00003.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- IAEM hosts OASIS Emergency Standards Interop Members of the OASIS Emergency Management (EM) Technical and Adoption Committees will showcase applications and tools that support the Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) suite of standards at the annual conference of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM). The demo will take place from 1-3 Nov in San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/IAEMInterop/2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Legal XML co-sponsors Open Government Workshop The event will provide an overview of current open government initiatives passed in 2009 as part of U.S. President Obama’s Open Government Initiative. The workshop will be followed by a reception; both will be held on 9 Nov at the Stanford Law School in California, USA. The workshop is free and open to the public. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/law/forms/opengov.fb ----------------------------------------------------------------- Emergency Management TC hosts webinar On 21 Oct, the Emergency Management TC will host a one-hour webinar on the Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM) and Hospital Availability Exchange (EDXL-HAVE) standards. Attendees will learn how implementation of these standards can enhance interoperability and information sharing in the emergency management, response, and healthcare domains. There is no charge to attend the webinar; however, advance registration is necessary. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/808510192 ----------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News adds Dutch translation Beginning in October, Gershon Janssen will translate this newsletter as a voluntary service to the Dutch-speaking community. Anyone may subscribe by sending email to oasisnewsnl-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org or view the archives. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oasisnewsnl/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Vormetric becomes newest Sponsor member Vormetric provides a single, scalable, and manageable system for data privacy and protection that enables businesses and government agencies to control who, what, when, where and how people can access sensitive information. http://www.vormetric.com/ New OASIS Contributor members include Genzyme, Open Framework Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Swedish University Computer Network (SUNET), Tradeshift, and Web Layers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates 20 Oct TC Admin hosts webinar on TC Process changes http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tcmembers/201010/msg00000.html 21 Oct OASIS hosts Emergency Management Standards Webinar http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201010/msg00001.html Transformational Government Framework (TGF) TC holds first meeting http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201009/msg00008.html 21-23 Oct OASIS co-sponsors RuleML10 Washington, DC, USA http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2010/ 24 Oct SCA-J TC specs public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201008/msg00007.html 30 Oct SCA-Assembly package public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201008/msg00011.html 31 Oct OASIS Standard ballot closes for XSPA Profile of WS-Trust http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201010/msg00001.html OASIS Standard ballot closes for XRD http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201010/msg00002.html 1-3 Nov IAEM hosts OASIS Emergency Standards Interop in Texas http://events.oasis-open.org/home/IAEMInterop/2010 9 Nov Legal XML co-sponsors Open Government Workshop at Stanford http://www.stanford.edu/dept/law/forms/opengov.fb 23 Nov WS-Calendar 1.0 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201009/msg00011.html 24 Nov UBL 2.1 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201009/msg00012.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Korean. 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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