OASIS News - 16 December 2003

["Dee Schur" <dee.schur@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS News
16 December 2003

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

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XML 2003 Attendees Applaud OASIS Interop Demos

Companies, users, and government agencies from around the world
collaborated on four separate interoperability demonstrations of OASIS
Standards and specifications at the XML 2003 conference in Philadelphia
last week. In scenarios as varied as epidemic management, weather portal
aggregation, supply chain operations, and messaging, the practical usage
of ebXML, UBL, WS-Reliability, and XACML were shown. Adobe, BEA, Citrix,
Cyclone Commerce, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Korean National Computerization
Agency (NCA), NEC, US National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Vignette, and other OASIS members took
part in the demonstrations.

http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_12_10_03.php

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News Standards Summit

More than 80 experts on news metadata standards, commercial news
providers, users, and aggregators attended last week's News Standards
Summit co-sponsored by OASIS, IDEAlliance, IFRA, IPTC, and NAA.
Participants analyzed the current state and future expectations for news
and publishing XML efforts from both the content and processing model
perspectives.

Those interested in the formation of an OASIS Technical Committee to
develop a reference implementation incorporating existing news standards
should contact scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org.

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World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Advocates Standards

Representing OASIS at WSIS in Geneva last week, Patrick Gannon joined
more than 11,000 delegates from 176 countries, meeting with heads of
state, governmental ministers, technology providers, and executives of
ISO, ITU, and UNECE. Attendees adopted a WSIS Declaration of Principles
advocating the use of standards:

  Standardization is one of the essential building blocks of the
  Information Society. There should be particular emphasis on the
  development and adoption of international standards. The
  development and use of open, interoperable, non-discriminatory
  and demand-driven standards that take into account needs of users
  and consumers is a basic element for the development and greater
  diffusion of ICTs and more affordable access to them, particularly
  in developing countries. International standards aim to create an
  environment where consumers can access services worldwide
  regardless of underlying technology.

http://www.itu.int/wsis/

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Register for OASIS PR Group Before Dec 31

All OASIS Sponsors and Contributors are advised to have at least one
representative subscribed to the OASIS Public Relations Group. Beginning
January 2004, announcements on upcoming press releases and other
promotional opportunities at the consortium will only be sent to this
group, in an effort to reduce email traffic on the general OASIS members
list.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200310/msg00010.html

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Track OASIS Deadlines

The member info column on the OASIS homepage has been redesigned to make
it easier to stay on top of deadlines and opportunities for involvement.
The new section includes a quick breakdown by date of consortium
activities to participate in, review, vote on, and attend.

http://www.oasis-open.org

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OASIS Team Talks

19-23 Jan--Karl Best will present "Implementing Vertical XML standards"
as well as participating in a panel discussion on "Web Services and XML
standards: Can we benefit while avoiding pitfalls?" at OOP 2004 in
Munich, Germany.

22-23 Jan--Pim van der Eijk will present "Web Services Standards for
Business and Enterprise Integration" at COMDEX Scandinavia in Göteborg,
Sweden.

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


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