OASIS News - 8 March 2004

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

OASIS News
8 March 2004

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

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Booz Allen Hamilton Sponsors OASIS Symposium

Booz Allen Hamilton has joined Adobe, IBM, and Sun Microsystems as an OASIS
Symposium sponsor.  The generous contributions of these organizations make
it possible for OASIS to offer a content-rich event for a minimal meeting
fee. We greatly appreciate the support of our sponsors.

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Users Sign Petition in Support of AVDL and WAS Adoption

A grass-roots effort is being mounted to advance the adoption of two OASIS
specifications, Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL) and
Web Application Security (WAS). Network Magazine is lobbying vendors to
adopt these specs, which editors characterize as key to enabling better
interoperability between security equipment. The publication is calling on
the user community to unite in support of AVDL and WAS by signing online
petitions, which Network Magazine plans to present to vendors as evidence of
overwhelming demand for standards compliance over proprietary solutions.

"By making their voices heard, network managers will provide a much-needed
wake-up call for vendors and deliver the incentive necessary to implement
open standards such as AVDL and WAS in products across the board," said Dave
Greenfield, international technology editor of Network Magazine.

WAS provides a standard way to describe Web security conditions, and AVDL
defines the method for exchanging vulnerability information. Through both of
these efforts, OASIS members address the challenge of how businesses manage
ongoing application security risk on a day-to-day basis.


Network Magazine Petition:
http://www.networkmagazine.com/watchdog/avdl.jhtml
AVDL: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/avdl
WAS: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/was

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