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On behalf of UBL TC, Ken Holman (left) accepts Open Standards Cup award from Chet Ensign (right).
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The Universal Business Language (UBL) has been named Outstanding Accomplished TC for 2014. Tim McGrath and Ken Holman chair the TC, and Jon Bosak is Chair Emeritus. Finalists in this category include AMQP, OData, and TOSCA.
The Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) has been named Outstanding New TC for 2014. Subhash Sankuratripati of NetApp and Saikat Saha of Oracle chair the TC, and Robert Lockhart of Thales e-Security is secretary. Finalists in this category include eTMF, KVDB, and OSLC Core.
Congratulations to all recipients and finalists, and thanks to the TAB for taking on the difficult job of selecting winners from what was an extremely impressive field of candidates.
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At the Annual General Meeting of members, Ram Jeyaraman, John Tolbert, and Norm Walsh were recognized for their significant contributions to the open standards community.
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Ram Jeyaraman of Microsoft played a major role in bringing AMQP to OASIS and now co-chairs the AMQP TC and serves on the AMQP Steering Committee. He also co-chairs the OData TC and is active in WS-I.
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John Tolbert of The Boeing Company is pivotal in defining identity management and security standards. One of the first SAML adopters, he helped SAML become the basis for identity federation in the aerospace industry. He is also active in XACML.
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Norm Walsh is known as the driving force behind DocBook, one of the most widely used publishing schemas in the industry--and the most frequently downloaded OASIS Standard of all time.
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Members have approved the XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) version 2.0 as an OASIS Standard. XLIFF defines a specification for the interchange of localisable software and document-based objects and related metadata. Congratulations to the XLIFF TC chair, Bryan Schnabel, and to all TC participants including representatives of Foundational Sponsors, IBM and Microsoft, and Sponsors, Oracle, SDL, and Symantec, for this accomplishment.
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The Identity-Based Attestation and Open Exchange Protocol Specification (IBOPS) TC will work to define a server-based identity standard for enabling biometric security systems to provide identity assertion, role gathering, multi-level access control, assurance, and auditing. TC proposers include representatives of OASIS Sponsors, Hoyos Labs, Intel, and Red Hat, and others. Abbie Barbir of Bank of America serves as the convener; the TC chair(s) will be elected at the first meeting, which will be held 23 Sept in Geneva. (A teleconference bridge will be provided for TC members who are unable to attend in person.) All interested parties are invited to participate; contact join@oasis-open.org for details.
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Business Document Metadata Service Location 1.0 defines service discovery method values for use in DNS Resource Record service fields. Congratulations to BDXR TC chair, Kenneth Bengtsson, and to all TC members for accomplishing this milestone.
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"Everyone in our industry is well aware that interoperability is essential for the long-term sustainability of Digital Asset Management as a class of enterprise software in its own right."
From 'Intro to CMIS4DAM' by Ralph Windsor
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Any way to avoid standards wars in IoT? See this week's interoperate newsletter.
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"Our customers wants us to help guide the standard."
--Jim Susoy, P6R
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