OASIS News: 2 Aug 2012

[Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium.

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In this issue:

* Members receive OASIS Distinguished Contributor Awards
* Board of Directors elects officers, seats new members
* TC Process changes take effect
* Registration opens for Int'l Cloud Symposium

* TC approves TeMIX as Committee Note
* XACML Intellectual Property Control Profile public review begins
* Field Force Management (FFM) public review begins
* Videos published from Cloud Standards Lightning Rounds

* IDtrust seeks nominations for Steering Committee
* Important dates

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Members receive OASIS Distinguished Contributor Awards

Robert Griffin of RSA, G. Ken Holman of Crane Softwrights, and Anil Saldhana of Red Hat were recognized as OASIS Distinguished Contributors at the Annual General Meeting of Members in July. They were chosen based on outstanding achievement in the areas of new work, influence, ability to build consensus, leadership and service to the consortium.

http://www.oasis-open.org/member-roster/distinguished-contributors

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Board of Directors elects officers, seats new members

At the annual face-to-face meeting in July, the OASIS Board of Directors elected Jim Hughes of Microsoft as chair, Frederick Hirsch of Nokia as vice chair, Mike DeNicola of Fujitsu as treasurer, and Gershon Janssen as secretary. Jim, Frederick, and Gershon began their newly elected two-year terms along with Dawn Jutla of Saint Mary's University, Paul Lipton of CA Technologies, and Zhexuan Song of Huawei. They join Board members, Abbie Barbir of Bank of America, Peter Brown, Mike DeNicola of Fujitsu, Dave Ings of IBM, and Sanjay Patil of SAP.

http://www.oasis-open.org/board

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TC Process changes take effect

Updates include eliminating public reviews for non-material content changes, allowing Statements of Use from non-OASIS members, and streamlining the process of TC rechartering. TCs are now allowed to make ballot motions by email without having to adopt standing rules. Methods have been clarified for closing Subcommittees, and documents referenced in proposed TC charters must be publicly available. An online members briefing with Chet Ensign will be held in late August to explain these changes.

http://t.co/DqlITgux

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Registration opens for Int'l Cloud Symposium


Complimentary passes are available for government representatives who register before 1 Sept and discounts are offered for OASIS members. Delegates will explore security, privacy, and trust issues involved in cloud for the public sector. The event will be held 10-12 Oct at the Microsoft offices in the Washington, DC area. IBM is sponsoring; other sponsorship opportunities are available (contact events@oasis-open.org).

https://www.oasis-open.org/events/cloud/2012

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TC approves TeMIX as Committee Note

Transactive Energy Market Information Exchange (TeMIX) is an EMIX profile that defines tenders and transactions for price discovery, negotiation and response to grid conditions. Congratulations to members of the EMIX TC for achieving this milestone.

http://t.co/qfz60b9a

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XACML Intellectual Property Control Profile public review begins

This specification defines a profile for the use of the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) in expressing policies for intellectual property control. It defines standard attribute identifiers useful in such policies and recommends attribute value ranges. The public review ends 19 Aug.

http://t.co/SjhOvf4A

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Field Force Management (FFM) public review begins

FFM Integration Interface facilitates structured communication between heterogeneous enterprise resource management systems and field force management systems by defining flexible mechanisms that enable Work Request modeling, exchange, work history collection, and collection of other data from the field. This public review ends 16 Aug.

http://t.co/Qnn9ZUHL

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Videos published from Cloud Standards Lightning Rounds

Paul Lipton of CA Technologies discusses TOSCA, Gershon Janssen talks about IDCloud, Richard Moulds of Thales e-Security describes KMIP, and Sanjay Patil of SAP provides an overview of OData. Previews of potential new TCs are offered from Peter Brown on Cloud for the Public Sector, Jeff Perdue of CMU on Cloud Services Measurement, and Anil Saldhana of Red Hat on Cloud Authorization.

http://www.youtube.com/oasisopen

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IDtrust seeks nominations for Steering Committee

Nominations are now open for two seats on the OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering Committee. The group provides guidance to help the Member Section achieve its goal of promoting greater understanding and adoption of standards-based identity and trusted infrastructure technologies, policies, and practices. All IDtrust participants are invited to nominate qualified candidates and/or consider serving. The deadline to nominate candidates is 16 Aug; the elections will be held 17 Aug - 7 Sept.

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201208/msg00000.html

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Important dates:

13 Aug
Test Assertions Model Version 1.0 public review ends
http://t.co/E7J57rn6

16 Aug
Deadline to nominate candidates for IDtrust Steering Committee

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201208/msg00000.html

Field Force Management (FFM) public review ends 
http://t.co/Qnn9ZUHL

19 Aug
XACML Intellectual Property Control Profile public review ends .
http://t.co/SjhOvf4A

27-29 Aug
LegalXML sponsors RuleML-2012 (Montpellier, France)
http://2012.ruleml.org/

10-12 Oct
OASIS hosts International Cloud Symposium in Washington, DC.
https://www.oasis-open.org/events/cloud/2012

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