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Subject: OASIS News: 3 Apr 2012
Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: * Nominations open for OASIS Board of Directors and TAB * TC approves Energy Interoperation 1.0 as Committee Specification * TC approves SAML 2.0 Kerberos Web Browser SSO Profile 1.0 * LegalDocML TC elects officers * AS4 Profile of ebMS 3.0 v1.0 public review begins * TAB publishes "Interoperability Guidelines" whitepaper * Public election standards webinar to highlight EML * New LinkedIn Group promotes WebCGM use * Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop to focus on CAP * Important dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations open for OASIS Board of Directors and TAB Members will elect six candidates for seats on the OASIS Board of Directors and two candidates for seats on the Technical Advisory Board. Each will serve a two-year term beginning July 2012. All members are encouraged to consider serving in these positions or nominating qualified candidates. Nominations close 9 May. http://www.oasis-open.org/board/election-process ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TC approves Energy Interoperation 1.0 as Committee Specification The Profile describes information and communication models to enable collaborative and transactive use of energy. It facilitates the standard exchange of dynamic price signals, reliability and emergency signals, communication of market participation information such as bids, and load predictability. Congratulations to TC Foundational Sponsor, IBM, to Sponsors, EnerNOC, TIBCO, and the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and to all Energy Interoperation TC members. http://ow.ly/1ilnlv ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TC approves Energy Market Information Exchange (EMIX) 1.0 Published as an OASIS Committee Specification, EMIX defines an information model and XML vocabulary for the interoperable and standard exchange of prices and product definitions in transactive energy markets. Congratulations to TC Sponsors, EnerNOC, TIBCO, and the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and to all EMIX TC members. http://ow.ly/1ilifG ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TC approves SAML 2.0 Kerberos Web Browser SSO Profile 1.0 The Profile has been published by the Security Services TC as an OASIS Committee Specification. It extends the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) by allowing the transport of assertions using the Kerberos subject confirmation method by standard HTTP user agents with no modification of client software and maximum compatibility with existing deployments. Congratulations to TC Foundational Sponsors, IBM, Microsoft, and Primeton, and to Sponsors, AOL, Avaya, Boeing, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Jericho Systems, Nokia, Oracle, Ping Identity, Red Hat, SAP, Tiani "Spirit", and the US Veterans Health Administration, and to all SAML TC members. http://bit.ly/Hoan7l ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LegalDocML TC elects officers at first meeting On 29 Mar, LegalDocML TC members elected four Committee Secretaries to ensure their work addresses regional issues in Africa, Europe, and North and South America--Ashok Hariharan of the Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan (UN/DESA), Claudio Fabiani of the European Parliament, Tom Bruce of the Cornell Law School, and Sylvia Tosar Piaggio of the Uruguayan Parliment. Fabio Vitali and Monica Palmirani of the University of Bologna-CIRSFID were elected as co-chairs. LegalDocML will define a common standard to promote worldwide best practices for the use of XML in legislative, regulatory, and judiciary documents. It advances work begun by the Akoma Ntoso-UN project. New members are welcome to join. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legaldocml ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AS4 Profile of ebMS 3.0 v1.0 public review begins The Web services B2B messaging specification brings continuity to the principles and simplicity of AS2, while adding better compliance with Web services standards, and features such as message pulling capability and a built-in receipt mechanism. This public review ends 14 Apr. http://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/pr-15-day-public-review-for-as4-profile-of-ebms-3-0-version-1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TAB publishes "Interoperability Guidelines" whitepaper The paper covers best practices for writing specifications in ways that minimize the risk of interoperability failures between implementations. This latest work from the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB) identifies the most common traps specification writers should avoid. http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/interoperability-guidelines . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public election standards webinar to highlight EML Held on 16 May by members of the Election and Voter Services TC, the webinar will present information on how election authorities in Australia, Europe, and North America use the Election Markup Language (EML) to provide more complete services for citizens and election officials. EML addresses the complete election process including voter registration, casting of the vote, e-counting, and communication of results. There is no charge to attend the webinar; advance registration is required. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/846313449 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New LinkedIn Group promotes WebCGM use The Group provides a public forum for discussions on WebCGM, a profile for presenting dynamic technical graphics in the web environment. WebCGM was developed by the CGM Open Member Section and is both an OASIS Standard and a W3C Recommendation. All interested parties--including CGM users and vendors--are invited to contribute to this open dialogue. http://linkd.in/WebCGM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop to focus on CAP Scheduled for 1-3 May in Montreal, the workshop will explore domestic policy and international coordination issues surrounding public alerting. Implementations of the OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard will be featured. Workshop co-hosts include OASIS, Environment Canada, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Public Safety Canada, and the World Meteorological Organization. There is no charge to attend; advance registration is required. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/cap/2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: 8 Apr Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) pubic review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201203/msg00004.html 14 Apr AS4 Profile of ebMS 3.0 v1.0 public review ends http://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/pr-15-day-public-review-for-as4-profile-of-ebms-3-0-version-1-0 17 Apr European Identity Conference Munich, Germany http://www.id-conf.com/ 28 Apr WS-Security 1.1.1 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201202/msg00009.html 30 Apr - 1 May Identity Conference 2012 ‘Managing Digital Identity in a Networked World’ Wellington, New Zealand http://www.identityconference.victoria.ac.nz/ 1-2 May Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Montreal) http://events.oasis-open.org/home/cap/2012 (English) http://events.oasis-open.org/home/cap/2012/fr (French) 6 May Biometric Identity Assurance Services (BIAS) SOAP Profile 1.0 pubic review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201203/msg00002.html 9 May Nominations close for OASIS Board of Directors and TAB http://www.oasis-open.org/board/election-process 9-10 May OASIS co-sponsors Smart Grids Data Management Forum (London) ** Mention 'OASIS' when registering for 10% discount ** http://www.smi-online.co.uk/events/overview.asp?is=17&ref=3708 16 May EML public election standards webinar https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/846313449 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow OASIS on: LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/OASISopen Twitter: http://twitter.com/OASISopen Facebook: http://facebook.com/oasis.open YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/oasisopen ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volunteers to translate the newsletter into other languages are welcome; contact communications@oasis-open.org. 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