OASIS News - 30 March 2004

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

OASIS News
30 March 2004

Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments,
and activities for the international standards consortium.
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ebXML OASIS Standards Approved As ISO 15000

The International Standards Organization (IS0) has approved a suite of four
ebXML OASIS Standards that enable enterprises in any industry, of any size,
anywhere in the world to conduct business over the Internet. The submissions
from OASIS will be published as ISO technical specifications, ISO/TS 15000.

http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_03_29_04.php
http://xml.coverpages.org/ISO-ebXML.html

See also ebXML References: http://xml.coverpages.org/ebXML.html

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OASIS Members Form New TC for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
(DITA)

A Call for Participation has been issued for the OASIS Darwin Information
Typing Architecture (DITA) TC. The OASIS DITA TC will define an XML-based
specification for modular and extensible topic-based information. DITA
provides a model for defining and processing new information types as
specializations of existing types. Interested participants should join by 16
April in order to contribute to the first meeting on 4 May.


http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-03-29-b.html
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200403/msg00021.html

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OASIS UDDI Spec TC Approves the 'Value Set Overview Documents Technical
Note'

The OASIS UDDI Spec TC Technical Note provides recommendations for what UDDI
Value Set Overview Documents accompanying a value set need to contain such
as describing the nature of the value set and its use in categorizations.
Application of this Technical Note will ensure consistency and completeness
of Value Set Overview Documents.

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/uddi-spec/doc/tns.htm#vsoverviewdoc.

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OASIS WSRP Interoperability Demo at Delphi Enterprise On-Demand Conference

On 31 March 2004, BEA, Citrix, Gluecode, IBM, Oracle, Plumtree and others
will showcase the WSRP OASIS Standard to
aggregate content from disparate sources. BEA, IBM, Oracle, and Plumtree
provided test implementations of a WSRP
Consumer within their portal servers. The demo shows content from portlets
running on five different platforms,
four that are J2EE based and one that is .NET based, being aggregated and
interacted with in a manner equal to that of locally hosted portlets. This
demonstrates how portlets will be reused on other portals via WSRP rather
than requiring each portal deployment to separately install the complete set
of portlets. WSRP maximizes both control and availability for the portlet
hosting site while minimizing costs for the remote portal sites.

http://www.delphigroup.com/events/04_eod/index.htm

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OASIS Symposium Updates

The OASIS Symposium continues to gain momentum.

AGENDA - A week full of events!

This New Orleans OASIS Symposium will not only deliver the promised
HIGH-LEVEL conference program content, but will also include:

o	Special Industry Panels
o	Keynotes from Leading Industry Experts
o	Pre-Conference Tutorials
o	eHealth Workshop
o	Evening BoFs
o	OASIS TC Meetings
o	And the OASIS Annual General Meeting

You don't want to miss this opportunity to network with the leaders in the
industry, including the vendors, the standards developers, the implementers,
and the industry trend-setters.  This week will promise to deliver something
for everyone. View the event Web site for more details:
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/

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OASIS on the Agenda

31 March--Patrick Gannon will be the Keynote speaker at the XMLAsia
Conference 2004 in Singapore.
http://www.xmlone.org/xmlasia2004/conprogram.htm.

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OASIS Member Discounts

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.