OASIS News - 16 March 2004

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

OASIS News
16 March 2004

Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments,
and activities for the international standards consortium.
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Vote to Begin For Two New OASIS Standards

Common Alerting Protocol v1.0 Committee Draft from the OASIS Emergency
Management TC and Web Services Security v1.0 Committee Draft from the OASIS
Web Services
Security TC have successfully completed the public review periods. A Call
For Vote will soon be released to each OASIS member organization, voter
input should be directed to the organization's voting representative.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200403/msg00014.html

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Three New TCs Begin Work at OASIS

*	A Call for Participation has been issued for the OASIS Web Services
Resource Framework (WSRF) TC. The OASIS WSRF TC will define a set of
royalty-free,
interoperable, and modular specifications supporting a generic and open
framework for modeling and accessing Web services resources. Interested
participants should join by 13 April in order to contribute to the first
meeting on 28 April.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200403/msg00006.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-03-10-b.html

*	A Call for Participation has been issued for the OASIS Web Services
Notification (WSN) TC. The OASIS WSN TC has been chartered to define a set
of
specifications that standardize the way Web services interact using the
Notification pattern. Interested participants should join by 13 April in
order to contribute to the first meeting on 28 April.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200403/msg00007.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-03-10-b.html

*	A Call for Participation has been issued for the OASIS LegalXML
Subscriber Data Handover Interface (SDHI) TC. The OASIS LegalXML (SDHI) TC
will develop a consistent XML interface identifier (e.g., a telephone
number) that is a response to an XML request from a judicial, public safety,
or law enforcement authority. Interested participants should join by 13
April in order to contribute to the first meeting on 28 April.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200403/msg00012.html

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OASIS CAM Committee Spec v1.0 Review Process Begins

The OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) TC has approved v1.0 of the
CAM Specification as a Committee Draft, and now starts a 45-day
public review prior to submitting this spec to OASIS members for
consideration as an OASIS Standard. CAM provides an open XML based system
for using business rules to define, validate and compose specific business
documents from generalized schema elements and structures. The public review
runs 15 March through 15 April.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200403/msg00013.html

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Member Call to Action: Know Your Voting Rep

With several important Consortium ballots coming up-including exciting new
candidates for OASIS Standards and the annual Board of Directors and
Technical Advisory Board elections--it is vital that all OASIS members
participate in the decision-making process. The first step is to review your
organization's user roster, confirm its accuracy, and make note of your
Voting Rep. (Edits may be made directly by your Primary or Admin Contact or
by sending change requests to member_services@oasis-open.org.) As elections
commence, share your views with your Voting Rep and encourage him or her to
ensure your organization's voice is heard on every important issue.

http://www.oasis-open.org/kmembers/person/roster/


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OASIS Symposium Updates

Program Now Available!

The OASIS Technical Advisory Board has successfully delivered a program that
offers attendees a forum to exchange ideas and present results of standards
work-in-progress, as well as the opportunity to identify unaddressed topics
in need of standards development and areas where coordination between
standards efforts would promote interoperability.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200403/msg00015.html

Reliable Infrastructures for eHealth Workshop is Announced!

On Wednesday 28 April, OASIS and CommerceNet join forces to present Reliable
Infrastructure for
eHealth, a one-day Workshop designed to investigate the relationships
between the standards that exist today and identify solutions to the road
ahead. This workshop is designed to facilitate the identification of
practical steps that can be taken to apply reliable infrastructure for XML
standards into healthcare applications.

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/ehealth_workshop.php

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New OASIS Sponsors include:

*	Bahwan Cybertek, http://www.bahwancybertek.com/, an international
software products and services developer.

*	AmSoft Systems, www.amsoft.net, an IT solutions company.

*	Pegasystems Inc., http://www.pegasystems.com/, a provider of
business process management (BPM) software.

*	Amberpoint Inc., http://www.amberpoint.com/, a provider of Web
services management software.


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OASIS Member Discounts

24-26 March, Gilbane Content Management, Los Angeles, California.
OASIS members receive a $100 discount.

29-31 March, Enterprise On Demand, San Francisco, California.
**Ten FREE passes are available to OASIS members, please contact
dee.schur@oasis-open.org. Ten additional passes are available at a flat rate
of $500. Please register with Delphi directly at 617-247-1511.